John Nash at Novel Prize Ceremony ... The man who told Nash the news of his selection, Carl-Olof Jacobsen, noted aging mathematician's reaction: "He was unusually calm. That was my thought.

John Nash, like so many of the best scientific minds ... the think tank had gained a new sense of urgency from the news that Russia had developed the A-bomb, many years before U.S. officials ...

The political backdrop to John Nash's paranoid and geopolitical hauntings included the Cold War, fought not only with spies and bombers stationed abroad, but by FBI agents, demagogue senators ...