Abstract
Summary: WAR OR PEACEI YOU DECIDE is a role-playing simulation of decision-making by major leaders of the U.S.A. and/or the U.S.S.R. under crisis conditions: a possible nuclear confrontation. The stu- dent(s) choose(s) whether to be the U.S. or the U.S.S.R., and the game randomly selects one of three scenarios for that nation. During play the student sees ranges of plausible advice given to American, or Soviet, leaders by top civilian and military officials. Options are chosen, news or intelligence messages are shown, results of decisions are displayed, further choices are made, and nuclear war, or peace, results.
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