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The gameplay is a simulation of a global nuclear war, with the game's screen reminiscent of the "big boards" that visually represented thermonuclear war in films such as Dr. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, and especially WarGames. The game has been available by download since September 29, 2006 through Introversion's web store and Steam.
Wellerstein's creation has garnered some popularity amongst nuclear strategists as an open source tool for calculating the costs of nuclear exchanges. [11] As of October 2024, more than 350.7 million nukes have been "dropped" on the site. [citation needed] The Nukemap was a finalist for the National Science Foundation's Visualization Challenge ...
Pages in category "Video games about nuclear war and weapons" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The game's premise, based on stopping a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the United States by bombing Soviet military bases, led to significant political controversy in Cold War Europe, being added to the BPjM index in West Germany, restricting sales to adults only, and was deemed by the East German Stasi to be one of several games of "a ...
Video games about nuclear war and weapons (3 C, 72 P) Pages in category "Video games about nuclear technology" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Scram: A Nuclear Power Plant Simulation is an educational simulation video game developed for Atari 8-bit computers by Chris Crawford and published by Atari, Inc. in 1981. [1] Written in Atari BASIC , Scram uses differential equations to simulate nuclear reactor behavior.
B-1 Nuclear Bomber is a flight simulator developed by Avalon Hill and Microcomputer Games and released in 1980 for the Apple II and other computers. [2] [3] The game is based on piloting a B-1 Lancer to its target and dropping a nuclear bomb. [4] The USSR is one of the target countries.
Proud Prophet was a war game played by the United States that was designed by Thomas Schelling and began on June 20, 1983. [1] The simulation was played in real time during the Cold War. Proud Prophet was essentially played to test out various proposals and strategies, in response to the Soviet Union's military buildup.