Well a second strike is justified in most cases. I do not like autonomic unmanned systems. There is a movie called Fail Safe from the late 50s or early 60s that dealt with this issue.
Certainly any nation has a reason to strike back if they have been stuck. Autonomous systems don't decipher mistakes though. I do think the US has a similar system to Russia, in fact I know they both do exist, I do not like automatic destruction.
If you think burning coal or fuel oil is bad for the environment think of what that could cause. Both the castle bravo and zsar bomba were accidents. In other words neither nation knew what they had in either case.
Both have said so, and both have signed treaties to never make those again. Yea, I trust politicians, if you do you're crazy. I do agree that the established states that have nuclear arms should, it is the best deterrent to the next great war.
Albert Einstein once said, I don't what weapons the third world war will be fought with, the fourth one will be sticks and stones.
Deterrents/ mutual destruction, has been proved to have been effective, peace through strength and all that crap has been proved to have worked. Every single time a perceived vacuum of power has occurred, the crazies come out to play. If it comes down to nukes, then accept the fact, bend over, and kiss your *** goodbye.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.