The second Cold War lesson comes from the Cuban missile crisis. On Saturday, October 27, 1962, as we took the last steps toward a conflagration, John F. Kennedy proposed a deal to Nikita Khrushchev.

Game Theory, Economics, And War. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek ...

The US and China Are Waging a Cold War That Is Truly MAD. ... “Mutually assured destruction” was one of those blood-chilling concepts that emerged from the game theory approach to nuclear ...

Game theory directly underpinned the idea of “mutually assured destruction” during the nuclear build-up and stand-off of the cold war. It has since been applied in fields ranging from trade to ...

What does the game tree look like in the next phase of Russia’s war in Ukraine? Russia launched its invasion at the worst possible time from a military logistics point of view, during Ukraine ...

The world is closer to nuclear war than it's been in at least forty years. Today on the show: The game theory of nuclear war. When can mathematical models help us, ...