Do nuclear weapons prevent regional wars?

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: A, , course: Science and the world around us, language: English, abstract: On the 6th of August 1945, United States military air crafts flew over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki releasing two nuclear fission (atomic) bombs. The atomic bomb is probably the deadliest weapon of mass destructio...