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Solvable Nuclear War Models

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  • Norman C. Dalkey

    (The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California)

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This paper deals with an aggregated, two-sided war game, one of several designed to study the use of abstract models for strategic planning. A payoff function for the war game is defined making use of an assumption of increasing concern as a critical level of damage is approached. A very simple, one-weapon version of the central nuclear war game has an analytic solution, indicating the existence of a stable (equilibrium) point in pure strategies if each side has a nonnegligible counterforce capability.

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  • Norman C. Dalkey, 1965. "Solvable Nuclear War Models," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 11(9), pages 783-791, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:11:y:1965:i:9:p:783-791
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.11.9.783
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    1. M. Shubik, 1987. "The Uses, Value and Limitations of Game Theoretic Methods in Defence Analysis," International Economic Association Series, in: Christian Schmidt & Frank Blackaby (ed.), Peace, Defence and Economic Analysis, chapter 4, pages 53-84, Palgrave Macmillan.
    2. Martin Shubik, 1987. "Game Theory. Models of Strategic Behavior and Nuclear Deterrence," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 829, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.

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