>>2096374
true.
Cold War games devolve into two branches: Diplomacy and Spycraft.
Alt-Cold (World) War would be a cool subject to explore.
A sustained World War that uses either no or limited nuclear weapons (somehow stuck in mid-escalation). You could handwave it with a political reason or claim that the nukes were covertly disarmed by inspector-activists on both sides during inspections over the years in case global thermonuclear war ever did break out (if the unimaginable became imaginable).
Yeah there's a lot of ways you could write this.