Fascinating articles for anyone interested:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/05/11/are-you-ready-to-die/

A well written and detail-rich article about the "super fuses" (special US technology) that talks about this plays into a US preemptive strike:

http://www.unz.com/tsaker/making-sense-of-the-super-fuse-scare/

Thanks for the links. Conclusion 3 in the 'Super-fuse' article is spot on:

Conclusion 3: the real danger to our common future

The real danger to our planet comes not from a sudden technological breakthrough which would make nuclear war safe, but from the demented filled minds of the US Neocons who believe that they can bring Russia to heel in a game of “nuclear chicken”. These Neocons have apparently convinced themselves that making conventional threats against Russia, such as unilaterally imposing no-fly zones over Syria, does not bring us closer to a nuclear confrontation. It does.