Food for thought

Today is the anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb. Winds of Change reports on an article from the New York Times, but what made me stop and think was this comment from a visitor going by the name of 'Lurker':

"As horrifiic as these events were, didn't they serve as a potent talisman, preventing use of the 'bomb' during the entire Cold War? How much more likely would a 'Hot' War have been, if the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't there to provide examples of where it could lead?"

Believe what you want, but I think that is one helluva silver lining.