What did we do in the cold war? We were the deterrent. We held back the apocalypse through a threat of total nuclear annihilation and, thank God, we never had to prove our resolve. If you are reading this, you still exist. You still exist because of people like these folks that, while not laying down their life on the field of battle, fought a virtual war of wills where total destruction of both sides was proof that there would be no winner.
To read this post, please follow this link to the Congregation for Religious Tolerance blog, "The Path": The Fate of the World (or a small piece of it)