That sums up the end of the Cold War. The US and the USSR were competing by devoting huge portions of their production to wasted[1] war materials. Finally the U

That sums up the end of the Cold War. The US and the USSR were competing by devoting huge portions of their production to wasted[1] war materials. Finally the US out crazied the USSR under Reagan and Gorbachev conceded. The benefit of using robot war to compare nations' will power is that you aren't one glitch away from Armageddon as when you use nukes, and you don't kill a generation of people like a human war. [1] "wasted" in the sense that they were never actually used in combat. The deterrent aspect was part of the "cold".