Tag: Cold War
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Guest AuthorMay 1, 2014

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In the 1983 movie, “War Games,” a young Matthew Broderick tries to hack into computer game development sites and accidently uses his dial-up modem to enter the Department of Defense mainframe. There he gets the computer charged with activating Intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, to start playing a simulation game of “global thermonuclear war.” As […]


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