Comment Re:MAD vs 2-player, TRUEL, to N-player games (Score 1) 1032
Game Theory gets messy with more than two players. Googling (( TRUEL )) finds even a Wikipedia article on the subtleties of a three-person-duel. Someday, inevitably, at least a dirty bomb, maybe a primitive Hiroshima-class terrorist nuke is going to go off, probably in a harbor-city because primitive nukes won't fit in carry-on baggage. WHODUNNIT, who to retaliate against ?
Consider the difficulties of retaliation against folks in what one might think are open-and-shut cases.
(( Brian Nichols 1.8 million )) reveals the legal bills to retaliate against the guy who took an officer's gun while IN CUSTODY.
(( Yale Raymond Clark Annie Le Defense Budget )) will be an interesting story. What with the card-key-swiping and DNA evidence, one might think a defense impossible. In other words "The cost of prosecuting open-and-shut cases" I think is a good benchmark of a legal system.
Yet the cost of retaliating instinctively are also high. Even the old book "Blackhawk Down" is full of indiscriminate-return-fire incidents, that was long before Pat Tillman.
For sure, we will look back nostalgically at the 2-player-Cold-War days.