...was not protest nor the good side of humanity realising it is time to put down their weapons and give up war. It wasn't religious teachings nor social movements.
The biggest power for world peace is the most devastating weapon ever used in humanities history: the atom bomb.
No country with nuclear weapons can be attacked. No third world war happened because the unleashing of any nuclear power's arsenal would be too devastating.
Mutually Assured Destruction is what brought peace. The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the world and the human race got closest to annihalation. No peace movement nor religious force nor anything else but the two most powerful men in the world realising what would happen if they went to all out war was what stopped a war that would have left few, if any, alive.
I don't expect any nuclear power stopped researching even more powerful weapons. The most powerful hydrogen bombs we are aware of were developed in scant decades after the first fission bomb was dropped.
Scientific experiments like the Large Hadron Collider can give an insight into what devastation is possible. Some scientists feared it could create a black hole which would destroy the entire solar system. This technology could already be weaponised.
MAD keeps the peace better than anything else. Sad isn't it? This is the quality of the human race. Peace through the most devastating thing ever created.
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