Warzone/The Drive: The Movie War Games Inspired President Reagan To Take Cybersecurity Seriously
36 years ago today we learned that when it comes to nuclear war between superpowers "the only winning move is not to play."
On this day, June 3rd, 1983, War Games starring Matthew Broderick hit big screens across the United States. The movie had all the staples of a 1980s Cold War techno-thriller—a super powerful, blunt, and ruthless military-industrial complex, cutting-edge tech way beyond reality for the time, computers and more computers, and of course, 'super kids' that play the film's protagonists and the main problem solvers. The movie actually spoke to an ever more glaring reality of the time, that a major nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union would end in a world-shattering loss of life. The film's most memorable line, voiced by a computer, underscored just how depraved the stakes were: "The only winning move is not to play."
Read more ....
WNU Editor: I first saw this movie on video in the 1990s. Loved it then, and it is still one of my favourite films.
No comments:
Post a Comment