My concern with what my Causes and Prevention of War professor called the Mankind Absolutely Rejects Nuclear Explosives scenario is that after you've eliminated existing stocks of nuclear weapons, you have not eliminated the capacity to produce nuclear weapons during the course of a major-power war. If there is another direct major-power war and a nation has a choice between an invasion they project to cause 500,000 casualties and dropping a nuclear bomb, which would they choose?
I'm curious: fid your professor tell you why he decided on the acronym MARNE? A comparison to the Battle of Marne in WW1 seems likely but rather slim, doesn't it?