Anytime you are attempting to issue a statement on a particular topic it is always wise to first set your context and build from there. A discussion on an issue as important as nuclear war cannot be done justice without first considering the principle of war itself. Nuclear, conventional, hot and cold wars are all levels of the same principle of conflict. I understand that many will object to my definition citing cases of war for territorial gain, for material gain and for honor. However I must maintain, that in all cases if all complexities are sliced away.
War is simply a clash of worldviews that leads to an attempt to impose one over the other.
Perhaps to see the correctness of the above opinion it would be helpful to define what I mean by worldview. Let me say then that a worldview is any consistently combined political, economic, and spiritual system of living. The key to understanding a worldview is to first see it as a consistent system and then to see that consistent system as existing exclusive of all other worldviews. Christianity as such a belief holds that man was created by God and is special in His sight. As such Marxism and Christianity are mutually exclusive and are open to conflicts in cases where they are in contact.