DEFCON scares me and science says it will scare you too

DEFCON is existentially terrifying. How about a nice game of chess? Studies: David L. Waddington et al.“Education from inside the bunker: Examining the effect of Defcon, a nuclear warfare simulation game, on nuclear attitudes and critical reflection.” Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association. vol. 7(12), Apr. 2014 Chong-U Lim. “An A.I. Player for DEFCON: An Evolutionary Approach Using Behavior Trees.“ Department of Computing Imperial College London. June 2009 Miguel Sicart “How I Learned to Love