Was there a time in history when it was really close to the whole world being destroyed by nukes?

Answer 1

In fact, yes, there was. In the Cold War, when Russia and America were sinking each others submarines, destroying each others satelites, and planting spies in each others nation, Russia wanted to give Cuba a nuclear weapon. America was at bad terms with both Russia and Cuba, and so the Americans made a trap. They made a system that once Russia submarine transprting the nukes got within the borders of Cuba, all of America's nuclear weapons would target Russia and destroy it. Then all of Russias allies that had nukes would bomb America, and all of America's allies would attack the others... which would end in a nuclear war, and eventually the world would have blown up. But Russia had thought of all of this, and withdrew their submarine transporting the nukes. Yet, even today there is a chance of this happening. Pakistan and India are at war over Kashmir, an unclaimed piece of land. Both nations have nukes, and it might end with India bombing Pakistan (or vice versa) and all of their allies coming in and so on... But let's just pray that this will never, EVER happen.