Editing Thomas Schelling (section)

==Contributions to popular culture==
[[Stanley Kubrick]] read an article Schelling wrote that included a description of the [[Peter George (author)|Peter George]] novel ''[[Red Alert (novel)|Red Alert]]'', and conversations between Kubrick, Schelling, and George eventually led to the 1964 movie ''[[Dr. Strangelove|Dr.&nbsp;Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]''.<ref>Thomas C. Schelling, 2006 prologue to 'Meteors, Mischief, and War', in ''Strategies of commitment and other essays'', Harvard University Press, 2006.</ref>

Schelling is also cited for the first known use of the phrase [[collateral damage]] in his May 1961 article ''Dispersal, Deterrence, and Damage''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=INFORMS PubsOnline|journal=Operations Research|volume=9|issue=3|pages=363–370|doi=10.1287/opre.9.3.363|year=1961|last1=Schelling|first1=T. C.}}</ref>

In his book ''Choice and Consequence'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schelling, Thomas C., 1921–2016.|title=Choice and consequence|date=1984|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0674127706|location=Cambridge, Mass.|oclc=9893879}}</ref> he explored various topics such as [[nuclear terrorism]], [[blackmail]], [[daydreaming]], and [[euthanasia]], from a [[behavioral economics]] point of view.