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 ...

Von Neumann also worked for U.S. think tanks in the context of Cold War strategy in the '40s and '50s, so game theory has really been used to think about military issues since the beginning of the ...

The experience led him to the study of how nations and individuals negotiate all types of conflict, whether a rush-hour traffic jam, or a Cold War nuclear arms race.

Some historical events are relatively easy to model with game theory: the Cuban Missile Crisis, many of the Cold War proxy wars, the crisis over North Korean nuclear weapons.

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 ...