We came so close to Nuclear annihilation during the Bay of Pigs crisis that this sounds extremely naive. 

I think the emphasis should never have been on the bombs themselves though, but the stupidity of politicians... And they've only gotten far, far dumber since.

Covid19 was a great bunch of examples of our government nearly killing us all (and probably succeeded in halving our birth rate) just because they are so incompetent & greedy while holding too much power. 

This theme happens time and time again, and one day will be the end of humanity.