Oh absolutely. If you create a system with the potential for a disastrous cock-up, eventually you will get a disastrous cock-up. MAD was extremely dangerous.

My point was about the human component, and that we are still in a scary situation. Any individual wrong turn will probably have less immediately disastrous consequences. But each individual wrong turn is orders of magnitude more likely when you have religious lunatics who wish the end of the world with their fingers on the button.