University of Maryland professor Thomas Schelling, one of the recent winners of the Nobel Prize for economics, discusses the field of game theory.

Thomas C. Schelling and Robert Aumann are co-winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics. The two worked independently to apply game theory to social and political problems. Robert Siegel speaks ...

At a time of growing concern about possible nuclear threats from Russia, some prominent defense strategists are arguing for a new theory of deterrence. They argue that military conflict is now so ...

Anthony Bourdain's ‘No Reservations’ Nuclear Deterrence What do Denis Leary, Anthony Bourdain, Henry Kissinger, and Thomas Schelling have in common? They understand how to deter. Page 1 of 1 ...

Thomas C. Schelling, a game theorist who received the Nobel Prize in economics for insights that were credited with lessening the nuclear threat during the Cold War — and with helping explain ...

The most important part of Schelling’s memo to Kennedy was his observation that the traditional metrics of winning a war don’t apply when dealing with nuclears.

Schelling's focus was war — or as an earlier strategist put it, "the continuation of politics by other means." But Schelling took that famous aphorism and turned it into a fully fledged theory.

WITHIN half an hour of waking up on October 10th 2005, Thomas Schelling received four phone calls. The first was from the secretary of the Nobel Committee, with news that he and Robert Aumann had ...

Thomas Schelling’s death marks the passing of an all-too-rare type of economist. Schelling was a thinker who made use of formal economic methodology — in particular game theory — but was ...

Thomas Schelling, an American game theory pioneer and Nobel economics laureate who died last week aged 95, had a counter-intuitive suggestion.

A man named Thomas Schelling who helped conceptualize the plot for "Dr. Strangelove" won a Nobel Prize that is expected have his medal auctioned off as he requested before he died.