Doomsday gets closer.
The principle of limiting your alternatives to strengthten your position can be applied in other ways. (…) Another application is the hypothetical weapon called the doomsday machine. A weapon of great destructive power, it is set to go off automatically whenever the nation that designed it is attacked.
The point of building a doomsday machine is this: so long as the defending nation preserves its option to withhold retaliation, the way is open to an unpunished attack. A potential agressor may be tempted to attack and then, by threatening an even worse attack, inhibit the defending nation from retaliating. With the doomsday machine, the defending nation forecloses one of its options; it cannot help but retaliate. Here again, it is to a player’s advantage to keep the partner well informed; if you have a doomsday machine, it is a good to let everyone know it.
Game theory, A nontechnical introduction.
Morton D. Davis.
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Comment by Dr. Strangelove
# Wednesday 17/Jan/07,
Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn’t you tell the world, EH?
Ambassador de Sadesky: It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Comment by Blanca
# Thursday 18/Jan/07,
ei! he vist que tens el meu link al teu blog moltíssimes gràcies, no sé qui ets ni si m’has deixat agun comentari mai ni si t’agraden les meves seleccions muiscals tot i així gràcies! :)