Ever Because the United States missed the atomic bombs The fat man and the little boy, respectively, the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the world knew with a frightening certainty that mankind possesses the power to break the whole life of the earth - or, at least, most of them. Cockroaches can be withdrawn (and, if the "damn alley" of 1977 has the science right, Get really big). When the intercontinental ballistic missiles (MCBM) entered the image and the two superpowers on the planet, the United States and the USSR, engaged in a arms race that produced arsenals capable of reducing the world, in the words of Klaatu, burned roommate, it is strange that the world is strange no Stop still, go to the streets massively and seek the elimination of all nuclear weapons in order to ensure their future, the future of their children, their children's future, and so on.

When the world was on the brink of a full nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, it was enough to avoid this irresponsible game of Brinksmanship with our lives. And when the United States woke up in a Vietnam war grinder, the fear of destroying the buttons gathered, while a whole generation of Americans dealt with the death penalty. The threat of man made Armageddon was present as always; It just seemed little less likely when we fought a land war that had the aesthetics of the Pacific Theater in World War II. For people too old to serve, Vietnam was a sip that proved to the generation of rocks and rolls.

It was not until the partial melting of the island three Mile in 1979, Erylin predicted by "Chinese Syndrome", That people remembered that Dumsday was always an hour or more. After the Vietnam war was far enough in the overview, the world once again focused on the saber between Americans and Russian. And with Ronald Reagan's difficult conversation (the "great communicator" that they called, even after he visibly slipped into senility), everyone was worried that Fon Fon's temperament was missing. Kennedy and talent for frightening de -escalation. The front of Reagan seemed to spoil for a fight.

Privately, he did not want part of the nuclear war. He was terrified of the outlook, which made him buy in unwanted science on the rocket defense initiative of the Starwalks War. (Catastrophically clown President Donald J.

When "Wargames" hit theaters on June 3, 1983, it fired the imaginations of the Gen X video game, which were intrigued by the potential of PCs. And they were blown away by the idea that you can use your phone to connect to a supercomputer located in the headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (Norad) in Colorado, which, if you are not careful, can issue orders to launch any nuclear rocket.

Ronald Reagan was a deeply uninteresting man who served to the pleasure of rich conservative ideologists, but he owned a semi-fabric queer: he was scared of *** less than the nuclear war. And when he saw "Vargami" (one of /Top 15 films on the movie movie), Technologically ignorant leader of the free world has asked a shockingly visible question: Can a punk -like Matthew Broderick David Latman or, worse, foreign government compromises our national security and start with you in the world?

According to 2016 An article of Yorkyork Times From Fred Kaplan, a few days after showing Wargames, Reagan surprised his national security advisers by missing some questions about the threat of hacking a computer. General Johnon W. Vesi, president of the joint staff chief, reviewed the matter and, a week later, told Reagan, "Mr. President, the problem is much worse than you think."

It turned out that, before launching the internet, an engineer named Willis Ver had taken care of the security of the computer for more than a decade and warned that every machine included in the phone line or port was automatically vulnerable to hacking. Of course, no one took the worries of Ver - at least until Reagan saw a summer blockbuster and did not panic over it. And here's the cake: when Wargames writers Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parquez started exploring their project, computer scientist Rand Corporation, who convinced them that they were something Willis Weer.

15 months after Reagan saw Vorgams, he signed the confidential directive "National Telecommunications and Automated Information System Security". Whether he is animated by his conscience or the basic instinct of self -warning, Reagan has forced the United States' government to come out to computer security. It is one of the only good things he did during his two terms.