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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krensky" data-source="post: 4709080" data-attributes="member: 30936">And, to be explicit, understanding this and the role of game-theory in the Cold War generally, and in nuclear deterrence specifically, is important to understanding Watchmen. So much that one of the post comic 'essays' is about it. Dr. Manhattan destroyed this idea. He destroyed the concept of MAD. He could devastate the majority of the USSR and stop at least 60% of the Soviet strike, whether first or retaliatory, simultaneously (from our mortal perspective, everything was apparently simultaneous to some degree from his).Also, to be clear and fend off responses that will pull this into an actual political discussion, I am not and do not wish to discuss the politics of the Cold War, other then as elements of history needed to provide context for discussing the work in question, and only in the most emotionless, academic way.</blockquote>