War Games: giochi di guerra
40 anni di storia e fantasia
Hackers
Shall we play a game?
Wishing a happy 40th birthday to the film #wargames released in theaters on this day in 1983. Probably the most quoted film on our tours, the initial scene of the movie takes place at a Minuteman Launch Control Center that looks somewhat like ours. The film then follows the computer exploits of David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) as he inadvertently hacks into the WOPR computer at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) headquarters west of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The film made $124.6 million at the box office, and President Ronald Reagan was reportedly impressed by the film, subsequently seeking to improve government cyber security.
Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota gets a brief "shining" moment in the film (no pun intended), but we won't give away any spoilers.
Missili
NORAD
War Games
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Kriegsspiel
La guerra e il computer di Andrew Wilson
Mondadori, Gennaio 1970 (1968)
"HUTSPIEL is a theater-level war game directed to the study of the effects of various employments of tactical nuclear weapons and conventional air support on the defense of stabilized positions in Western Europe.
From: AN ANALYTIC MODEL OF THE STRATEGIC BOMBER PENETRATION MISSION WITH VARIANCE CALCULATIONS
Military Metaverse
DEFCON
DEFCON is existentially terrifying. How about a nice game of chess?
Studies: David L. Waddington et al.“Education from inside the bunker: Examining the effect of Defcon, a nuclear warfare simulation game, on nuclear attitudes and critical reflection.”
Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association. vol. 7(12), Apr. 2014 Chong-U Lim. "An A.I. Player for DEFCON: An Evolutionary Approach Using Behavior Trees." Department of Computing Imperial College London. June 2009 Miguel Sicart "How I Learned to Love the Bomb: Defcon and the Ethics of Computer Games." Center for Computer Game Research IT University of Copenhagen. 2009
GETTING MAD: NUCLEAR MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION, ITS ORIGINS AND PRACTICE
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