Nuclear deterrence and Soviet logistics after 1945

Did nuclear weapons prevent a third European war between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies after 1945?

They created breathing room and raised the risk, but exhausted Soviet logistics and dependence on Allied transport were also major restraints.

Nuclear weapons created risk and bought time for both sides after the Second World War. Soviet logistics were also near exhaustion by the time the Red Army reached Berlin. Allied-supplied lorries had been essential to sustaining the advance, and the transport system was reaching the end of its practical range. Deterrence and logistics therefore provide complementary explanations for the absence of an immediate new European war.