Fun fact, This image is from the movie [Wargames](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames), which released on June 3, 1983. The premise of the Wargames movie is that a super computer controlling the US nuclear weapons glitches out and thinks there’s an incoming attack. And in a strangely similar situation to that movie, but in real life, on 26 September 1983, a russian commander [got warnings from their computers that the US launched 5 nuclear ballistic missiles at the USSR.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov) He correctly surmised the warnings were glitches, because why would the US only launch 5, and did not pass the warning up the chain of command because he knew his commanders would retaliate. It’s quite likely he saved the world from a nuclear WW3 that day.
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The only winning move is not to play. Can I offer you a nice game of chess?
The most perfect depiction of MAD
Look up the game Defcon, by Introversion. You can basically play the game from the movie.
I know this is from the movie WarGames, but this image haunts me
Guess the whopper couldn’t factor in the USSR’s crumbling economy and factor that into the game.
*WINNER: EVEYONE
What about some Tic Tac Toe then?
Nuke Nunavut but not Nigeria ? No no no
Namely because the world ended 2 hours later. /s
Fun fact, This image is from the movie [Wargames](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames), which released on June 3, 1983. The premise of the Wargames movie is that a super computer controlling the US nuclear weapons glitches out and thinks there’s an incoming attack. And in a strangely similar situation to that movie, but in real life, on 26 September 1983, a russian commander [got warnings from their computers that the US launched 5 nuclear ballistic missiles at the USSR.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov) He correctly surmised the warnings were glitches, because why would the US only launch 5, and did not pass the warning up the chain of command because he knew his commanders would retaliate. It’s quite likely he saved the world from a nuclear WW3 that day.