I’d like to address your other points, but I think we have to talk about your last paragraph first.
You’re quite right; that the cold war did not end the world in our particular branch is not proof that the cold war was survivable in more than a tiny handful of possible worlds. But let me remind you in turn that “von Neumann’s plan would have been worse than the cold war” is not the same as “the cold war was safe”, “the cold war was good”, “the cold war doesn’t share any of the weaknesses of von Neumann’s plan”, or even “the cold war was terrible but still the best choice we had”. I’m arguing only that narrow thing: that our forefathers were right to reject von Neumann’s plan.
Fair enough?
I had a similar problem a while back (given a bunch of one-sided cards, I wanted to programmatically generate their inverses). I couldn’t find anything either, and wound up scripting my browser(!?).