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The idea of mutually assured destruction prevented the Soviet Union from launching a nuclear attack on the United States.
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Nuclear weapons, Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons.
Intimidation
The United States used the atomic bomb offensively during WWII. That is pretty close to nuclear weapons.
The only country that has ever used nuclear weapons in any war was the US, at the end of WW2.
No. No nuclear weapons have ever been used in an act of war besides the two dropped on Japan during the Second World War. The United States and Russia both produced enormous amounts of nuclear weapons during the Cold War, though none were used.