"Moreover, no plant or animal has threatened the entire Earth moreso than nuclear armed States"
Cyanobacteria have accomplished far more than we have on that front: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
counterpoint: nuclear-armed USSR, and since then nuclear armed former Soviet Republics with poor nuclear security, definitely including Russia in this.
second-counterpoint: global warming is also bad, actually damaging the earth instead of potentially damaging it.
>A quick look at how the natural world works is a good enough deterrent: https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/
What does this prove? No being can survive without destroying another being. Moreover, no plant or animal has threatened the entire Earth moreso than nuclear armed States