The Black Sea War, occasionally referred to as the Fourth Franco-Turkish War, was a conflict fought primarily between the French Empire and the Turkish Empire between 1957 and 1960, and also came to involve several other states aligned with the two major powers. The Black Sea War is, after the Pacific War, the most destructive traditional war between separate nations ever fought, and after the Pacific War, Chinese Civil War, French Civil War, the armed conflict with the highest death toll and most non-death casualties. The Black Sea War was notable for its involvement of numerous theaters of war and the application of war by proxy, as the Turks and their allies were buffered by American support. The Black Sea War also involved the first presence of nuclear weapons in wartime (although not