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Jun 3, 2023 · These unique reasons made WarGames ahead of its time 40 years ago. But now, those aspects feel like the wrong reasons to praise it. Today, what makes WarGames wonderful isn’t the Cold War ...
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Feb 16, 2015 · Because in 1979 programmers at NORAD almost started World War III when they accidentally ran a computer simulation of a Soviet attack. In the early morning hours of November 9, 1979 Zbigniew ...
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Who do you trust to manage a nuclear war – people or computer programs? At the start of WarGames, two soldiers are ordered to launch a nuclear missile. One soldier hesitates because, naturally, you’d want to double-check before annihilating the planet. The other soldier (a very young Michael Madsen) demands at gun-point that they follow through wit...
WarGames offers an intriguiging snapshot of Western popular culture and social ambition in the 80s– just as home computing was getting interesting, but before it became ubiquitous. First there’s the nod to computing as many kids would have experienced it: pay-to-play video games in arcades outside the home. But there’s something new on the horizon:...
David’s ambiguity is interesting in light of modern tensions with digital devices and tech companies. The internet has become a vital part of creativity, knowledge, income, justice and freedom. Yet access can be uneven, expensive, or exploitative. We can book flights on our phones, but digital transactions are two-way and opaque: we don’t always kn...
WarGames isn’t just fighting potential nuclear war; there’s a full stack of obstacles to overcome: 1. Russia, often the enemy of choice before the ‘war on terror’ 2. Young Vs Old (i.e., coming of age), a common theme in 80s Brat Pack movies such as The Outsiders. Similarly, there’s innovation Vs tradition (i.e., analogue Vs digital) 3. War and peac...
Recent films and serials don’t hold back on real-life programming and hacking techniques. Chances are that, even without coding knowledge, most viewers follow along just fine. Many will even know some coding themselves. In WarGames, however, there’s no programming. Frankly, what would audiences have made of it, given so few even owned a personal co...
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Jan 3, 2019 · Help Support the Podcast. "WarGames" High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War, Lightman leads the supercomputer to activate the nation's nuclear arsenal in response to his simulated threat as the ...
97 Metascore. An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. Director Stanley Kubrick Stars Peter Sellers George C. Scott Sterling Hayden. 8. Fail Safe.
Seattle high schooler David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has only a few hours to undo what he thought was a sneak preview of an upcoming computer game but what instead got him tinkering with the U.S. Air Force's WOPR (War Operation Planned Response) computer system in such a way as to trigger a countdown to World War III.
Iceland was part of the GIUK network which was a series of sonars spanning from Great Britain to Iceland and from Iceland to Greenland. Those sonars were designed to track Soviet attack submarines, most importantly those with cruise capability so that Atlantic convoys would not get disrupted and aircraft carriers had one thing less to worry about.
