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• Weinberger was willing to be the first senior national security leader to personally participate in a simulation of U.S. war plans. But Weinberger was concerned about the “fishbowl effect”—where fear of public exposure and embarrassment might inhibit or distort decision making of the players on the various teams. He agreed to participate in the gam...
• worked like Proud Prophet. Played in real time at the secret facility of the National War College, the simulation went around the clock lasting for two weeks and had hundreds of military officers participating in Washington as well as communicating over top-secret links with all the major U.S. military commands around the world. The game simulated ...
• But after Proud Prophet, there was no more over-the-top nuclear rhetoric coming out of the United States. Launch on warning, horizontal escalation, early use of nuclear weapons, tit-for-tat nuclear exchanges