The Peace Research Game

Within the past decade a group of “New Civilian Militarists” has arisen to supply the Establishment with some natural and social scientific armor—Teller, Kahn, Kissinger, many others. Slowly a counterforce to the NCM has been growing on the American campus, too. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Society for Social Responsibility in Science were among the first to move in this direction. Now the body of social scientists concerned with the prevention of war has become respected and relatively sizable, so much so that many have voiced a fear at its overly rapid institutionalization and absorption by the very Establishment it criticizes.

There are more than 100 institutions in the U.S. doing researc...