100% certain that Kim Jung Un, and to a large extent Iran, don't understand, care about, respect, or have any interest in "Nash equilibrium" or game theory. nor

100% certain that Kim Jung Un, and to a large extent Iran, don't understand, care about, respect, or have any interest in "Nash equilibrium" or game theory. nor are they worried about their countrymen, their own survival (they are gods, you see) it's a delusional echo chamber. Putin is probably much more rational, and also much more dangerous, but the same considerations apply. if he needed justification (spoiler: he doesn't), it would be done, and not with a paper like this. > Is the author vying for a seat at the right hand of the devil? certainly not, that's extremely uncharitable. the paper could be better understood as a warning for the rest of us not to rely on a simple theory of MAD to assume "safety" when it comes to things like tactical nukes and escalation. don't blame the messenger for the way the math works out. however, i also think the implicit assumption of rational (vs. ego based) decision making is flawed anyway. The main point drawn on the findings of this paper is that the current cycle of escalation, globally, between nuclear powers simply needs to be stopped. The risks of it spiraling out of control, and/or creating a world where nuclear weapons would be used regularly in wars, lowering the threshold of the world drifting into a nuclear holocaust considerably, are just too great. The world needs, and majority of its populace wants, peace now more than ever. I hope modern leaders heed their voice and the warning presented in this paper.