If we would of listened to John von Neumann he would of preemptively nuked the Soviet Union to prevent the damn communists from getting a nuclear bomb; later, but since we didn't, he then invented the mutually assured destruction doctrine. When you combine the previous two sentences, it is not hard to guess that he would recommend we nuke the IPCC, Al Gore, and similar dangerous crap today, too.
One of his hobbies was to forecast weather. As a result, he has also designed a sophisticated project that could have efficiently raised global temperatures and make the world a better place: it was an ambitious project of a man-made global warming. He wanted to spread colorants on the polar ice caps in order to reduce the albedo and increase the absorption. ;-)
1940's
It seems that game theory especially evolutionary game theory is spot on when predicting global events beyond most peoples comprehension or theologies control.