In co-authoring QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), A. G. Hayes and I created a United States reeling from a series of #quantum 'events' and #Bitcoin 'auctions' so opaque that it was impossible for the government, military and civilian agencies to determine with reasonable certainty who was behind them in order to construct a defense. At first, this posed a plot problem. How would multiple interacting agencies come to consensus when no consensus was likely to be forthcoming? It was then that it occurred to me that the United States had faced a similar crisis during the cold war, though in a slightly different context. That is, the question of how many nuclear weapons the former USSR had, where they were located, and how the Soviet government might invoke them was quite simply unknown. Yet, this question needed to be answered in order for the United States to form a realistic defensive MADD response. 

The answer came from the #RAND Corporation in the 1950s the form of the intriguing #Delphi Technique. Delphi is a method to force consensus where natural consensus was difficult or impossible. I've incorporated the method in QUANTUM DEATH as a means for Cerebrus' leadership to come a consensus regarding who is behind the mysterious "events" and "auctions." 

The application is straightforward, but the results? You'll have to read QUANTUM DEATH to see.