War Games

  “…thermonuclear war may break out at any moment…” -Kim In Ryong, North Korean UN deputy representative Back in 1983, before he became a cultural icon as Ferris Bueller, Matthew Broderick starred in War Games, a movie in which an adolescent unknowingly and nearly sparks a global nuclear war because he thinks he’s playing a game. In one scene, when it becomes clear that American nuclear missiles have been programmed to launch in any event that the computers suspect their programmers have been compromised, an Air Force general exasperatedly orders American bombers to head back to Soviet air space, because he’s decided that it’s better toRead More →