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> Are there any youtube videos that go into the theory of proliferation and how an arms race works, or is there just not that much information available?

I don't have a youtube video for you, but I do have a book recommendation: Thomas Schelling's "The Strategy of Conflict" from 1960.

The writing is extremely clear and accessible, by the standards of nobel-prize-winning economists.

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This is also the work that introduced the idea of the game theoretical focal point, aka Schelling point

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)

Thank you, I will check out the book. Yes I forgot that it is essentially economics at the core of it. All of the same economic arguments also apply to biological weapons too. Here's to hoping neither is ever used.

> Here's to hoping neither is ever used.

To nitpick: Hope they're never used again.

I'd also argue that all of the states that have nuclear weapons have historically used them as a bargaining chip or trump card. Employing them, on the other hand..

To add to more Nuclear War / Strategic Theory info is another RAND fellow,

Herman Kahn[0][1], and his book On Thermonuclear War [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Kahn

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/06/27/fat-man

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Thermonuclear_War

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