Kenneth Waltz has argued that nuclear weapons have helped keep an uneasy peace, and further nuclear weapon proliferation might even help avoid the large scale conventional wars that were so common before their invention at the end of World War II.
O profesor Kenneth Waltz argumenta que as armas nucleares axudaron a manter unha paz inquieta e a proliferación dese tipo de armamento pode mesmo axudar a evitar guerras convencionais a gran escala, que eran tan común antes da invención da bomba atómica ao final da segunda guerra mundial.