Korean apts. look like 'exploding twin towers'.

[El Kabong]

Maybe, maybe not. That's not something which can be easily proven. Even so, it still came pretty close to outright war on a couple of occasions.

To make a sweeping generalization - neither country really wanted to go to war with one another, even without nukes the death tolls would have like made WW2 look like a tea party (alibeit a genocidal one ).

Well the US made plans to get Germany back on it's feet, get those soldiers and Panzers, and plow on through Moscow....never materialized, but it WAS on the table. The only thing I could think of that would have been a deterrant either way was the threat of nuclear attack.