Abstract
TAKING as variables the “preparedness for war”, “defence coefficients”, “fatigue and expense coefficients”, and “dissatisfaction with treaties”, Dr. L. F. Richardson expresses by means of differential equations the tendency towards war or peace. He deduces that the international system is unstable if the product of the two defence coefficients exceeds the product of the two fatigue coefficients and may drift either towards war or co-operation, according to the value of the different constants in the equations.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 136, 1030 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1361030c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1361030c0