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WarGames

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(recreation)WarGames - (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play.

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Suddenly, however, it was the age of the nerd warrior, like Matthew Broderick in WarGames, outthinking renegade computer programs and the fogey military planners who didn't understand the dangerous power of technology.
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In the future, the Army will conduct its force development wargames in Kingston in cooperation with the Director General Land Capability Development (DGLCD), the Chief of Force Development and with the other services.
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Robin: From the movie Wargames, and we are leaning more towards a Melvins/Rorschach sound lately.
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