You don't need to know anything about game theory to say "hey, I don't want to start a nuclear war and think I should precede very cautiously." The only two in

You don't need to know anything about game theory to say "hey, I don't want to start a nuclear war and think I should precede very cautiously." The only two incidents I'm aware of where it got that close, one was stopped by an officer before it even got up the chain of command. The other got to Yeltsin, who made the very rational call to wait and see if there was an error before starting a nuclear war.