Update, 11/29/20: It is a really distinct Thanksgiving weekend in 2020, however, {} tables have been smaller and traveling non, Ars team is away to the holiday to be able to recharge, and have a psychological afk rest, and possibly stream a film or five. But five years back on this timewe had been after a recently declassified government report by 1990 that summarized a KGB computer version… one which {} a WarGames, only IRL. With the movie now flowing on Netflix (so placing off our daily program )we thought we had resurface this narrative to a accompanying Sunday read. This piece printed on November 25, 2015, and it seems unchanged under.
“Let’s play Global Thermonuclear War.”
Thirty-two decades past, only months after the launch of the film WarGames, the planet came the closest it’s {} nuclear Armageddon. From the film version of a international near-death adventure, a teenaged hacker messing about using an artificial intelligence application which only happened to restrain the American atomic missile force ignites chaos. In fact, an extremely various computer software run from the Soviets fed rising paranoia about the goals of the USA, very practically tripping a nuclear warfare.
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