Game Theorists win Nobel Prize
Simulating and predicting the outcome of life threatening conflict through gaming:
“Game theory was first developed by Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann in the 1940s and 1950s as a way to understand decision-making in the real world where several parties were bargaining, perhaps with unequal resources and information.
It developed into a mathematical theory of strategy, which helped explain which decision, to cooperate or not with rivals, had the best pay-off.. ” link