A review by eroston
Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb by William Poundstone

Poundstone winds a von Neumann biography, history of the bomb, and a history of game theory into one package. It works. It's also a nice reminder of simpler times, when one person could know everything, when the world was bipolar, and game theory was stuck in binary oppositions, too.