"As horrific as they are, nuclear weapons have prevented large scale war for decades," he said.
Indeed, by the spring of 1835 Palmerston had been reinstated, though Metternich could take heart from the fact that large scale war had been avoided and the Quadruple Alliance was already beginning to disintegrate.
Other data shows that a large scale war between the US and Russia would cause even more profound climate disruption, producing a nuclear winter that would kill the vast majority of the human race and could cause our extinction as a species.
You have to have been in a Nerf war to be able to tell one good, so make sure that you've been in a pretty large scale war, anywhere from 3-3 up to infinity-infinity is good, and 1-1/2-2 manevenr an even cooler one, and also when you're out numbered and the opponent has the upper hand.
Short-term trends involving fewer large-scale wars are welcome.
But in such large-scale wars, casualties have become higher both in terms of absolute numbers and relative to population.
From the 1380s to the 1450s Italy was torn by a long series of large-scale wars.
He argued that there could be no large-scale wars over fundamental values since "all prior contradictions are resolved and all human needs satisfied".
He cites the 1967 and 1973 wars as moments when the United States failed to prevent large-scale wars -- failures he said this administration does not want to repeat.
But, whereas the Bush Administration will always be known for the large-scale wars it initiated in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama seems to prefer "waging war in the shadows with a light footprint and if possible limited public scrutiny," as Andreas Krieg, a foreign-policy expert at King's College, London, wrote in a recent paper published by Chatham House, a British think tank.
In the middle of the 2nd century, during a period when Rome was not otherwise occupied by fighting in the eastern Mediterranean or Africa, large-scale wars broke out in Celtiberia in the northern part of the Meseta and in Lusitania, which resulted in a series of consuls (senior magistrates) being sent to Spain.
