No, it isn't really, but it's certainly far from perceiving America as a military threat. But even then, Europe joyning forces for a war against a major enemy is something I won't even believe when I'd see it happen...
Wait... Wasn't that the idea behind NATO?
IMO nuclear war has a lot to do with how technology progresses.
Well, at least full-scale war.
I'm going to look at two things, and it's a bit complicated...
So first there's a localized nuclear war. Say Pakistan bought some nuclear tech from NK and decides to hit Jerusalem. A small scale nuclear strike would probably invoke a massive conventional war in the middle east, but chances are, because so few Arabic nations are closely connected politically with major western or eastern players, it would stay small-scale.
Perhaps the worse that could happen is both Russia and the U.S. getting involved... At opposite ends. Politicians would doubtlessly do anything to avoid this, though, and the war would still stay localized in the middle-east.
And now NK. Same story, except in this case they get wiped off the map. IMO the only reason nobody has taken them out yet is because of the wonders of modern media, any nation that liberates that heck hole will get all the blame of NK's horrible government.
I.e, South Korea wipes out NK, which has a massive poverty-stricken indoctrinated starving population. The wonders of modern Media put all the blame on South Korea, and imply the poverty was from the war and South Korea's fault.
Well, you can insert any nation in place of "South Korea". So ultimately doing the world a favor would result in very bad press.
Now, on a bigger scale the second thing: Globalized Apocalyptic nuclear exchange.
The way I see it, we live in a short period of human civilization where we get to enjoy an era of peace that is both unprecedented, and unlikely to happen again, just because of human nature, as long as there are multiple political entities living in tight quarters. (i.e., on the same planet.)
B.N., before nukes, Wars were quiet normal. If you go a generation without war, peoples' base desire for violence gets satiated by starting conflict, then they're reminded of the horrors of war and return to peace for a time.
Then came globalization in the 1900's, suddenly the whole world was connected. Well, since the whole world is now connected, everything happens on much bigger scales. Bigger industry, bigger economies (hello modern stock trade) and bigger wars.
In the modern Globalized era, WWI and WWII are normal wars. I seriously consider the possibility that the Atom bomb is the soul reason WWIII didn't start months after WWII because of tensions with Soviet Russia.
There was an 11-year gap in-between WWI and WWII, if you use that for an average, then by now there would have been 5 more world wars since WWII. Now, consider this:
Think the world was connected for WWII? Nothing compared to today. Faster, longer-ranged aircraft and (conventional) ballistic missiles, and most of all higher population, would make conventional wars today make WWII look puny.
But, that's not what happened, instead, we entered the next age, the age of M.A.D.
In this era, historically there have been minor conflicts, but no wars in any real sense, with Korea as a possible exception. No World Wars, no cities getting bombed in huge airborne raids, no tactical ballistic missiles raining death on civilians from military bases on the other side of planet Earth. (Newer generation V-2's, essentially.)
Peace and relative tranquility, peace brought about in fear, as we all sit in the shadow of Death; the nuclear-tipped ICBM, which has the potential to end humanity as we know it.
It's like we're in the cave with a giant. Nobody wants to get in a fight and wake the beast.
Then, either one of two things happen:
1) MAD fails, and everything goes up in mushroom clouds, or
2) Someone makes a ballistic missile interception system, capable of handling huge volumes of RV's, and the giant is dead.
Then the world enters A.N.: After Nukes.
If this happens, then the era of World Wars returns, and we experience a sort of conventional Apocalypse.
Only thing that can stop this is the everlasting struggle in-between armor and weapon that's been going on in the field of weaponry since the dawn of time. A high-volume interception system would be a victory for "armor". If ICBM's can counter it somehow, then weapons gain the upper hand and we live peacefully in the shadow of ICBM's once again.