Limiting Nuclear War

I want to see if you can just drill down on that because it's not actually totally clear to me. Why do you assume that for MAD to be an operation, there could never have been a kind of quiet dithering and uncertainty on the part of policymakers? For me, and I think people like Brendan and one of his co-authors, Austin Long, we disagree about how much damage the US could have limited in the Cold War. So that's one point of disagreement. But where we would agree is that we want theories to explain how policymakers behave, not how they should behave.