...or with EDS?
The fear Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) has help prevent further world conflict, which is why the cold war never really got any more than tepid.
I'm not sure I really buy that. For one thing who really knows what temperature the cold war rose to? I heard the Americans flew past their turnaround point during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Is that tepid?
In any event what happens when you're dealing with a nation of suicide bombers? If they think there's an afterlife full of virgins, they have no vested interest in the Earth still being sperical
And a good point was raised earlier. If MAD was so good, then give Nukes to everyone in the ME. It really doesn't matter if they launch them because if Star Wars is as good as we're told, they'll all get lasered out of the sky anyway.