“A Cold War Blueprint for the AI Age” by AI Frontiers

Subtitle: Deterrence can be the starting point for US-China cooperation. Jim Shinn, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia — September 24, 2026 In their 1961 book Strategy and Arms Control, Thomas Schelling and Morton Halperin took the idea of mutual assured destruction (MAD) and turned it from a Dr. Strangelove joke into a serious national security proposal. In doing so, they helped make it politically possible for the US and the USSR to engage in arms control talks, and those talks helped humanity avoid thermonuclear conflict for the rest of the Cold War. In 2025, Dan Hendrycks, Eric