[eru]

Indeed. Schelling constantly brings up the applications to child rearing.

I read his later books, too. They are good, but not as great.

[davidgerard]

Dude helped save us all from being flash-fried, I'll give him some slack ;-)

[eru]

Some people argue mutual assured destruction brought us closer to the abyss than anything. (See Dr Strangelove.)

Schelling wrote well, I am not sure about his actual effect on policy. There were other hawks, like von Neumann, another geeks' hero.

[davidgerard]

Dr Strangelove is actually a treatise on why Smart Contracts are a terrible idea nobody should want - the plot is literally an unstoppable Smart Contract gone wrong.