Well, Khaos, I think you managed to knock back my faith in humanity back to a reasonable level.
I have recently learned from an acquaintance about the Cold War deterrence policy. M.A.D. or Mutually Assured Destruction was flawed. The creator claimed it was a deterrence strategy, but it wasn't. It was a doomsday strategy. The Nash Equilibrium was on total nuclear war between Russia and the United States. It was designed to take the cold war to the threshold and past the brink. The creator would have known this. It was adopted into U.S. Policy and John von Neumann took his secret to the grave. How do I know the secret? von Neumann had two postgraduate students. One of them became a famous schizophrenic. The other had a small handful of postgraduate students, one of which revealed that knowledge to my acquaintance in a lecture. Neumann apparently wanted final, personal revenge on the Russians.
We managed to survive, but the policy took the arms race to the next level and almost got everyone killed many times. Maybe an example of a Goliath Event?