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WarGames. WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film [2] directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to ...
[7] [8] [9] A global thermonuclear war with Cold War-era stockpiles, or even with the current smaller stockpiles, may lead to various scenarios including the human extinction. [10] To date, the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict occurred in 1945 with the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
DEFCON. (video game) DEFCON (stylised as DEFCOИ and sometimes subtitled Everybody Dies in the North American version and Global Thermonuclear War in the European version) is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion Software. The gameplay is a simulation of a global nuclear war, with the game's screen ...
Miracle Mile (1988) – a film about two lovers in Los Angeles leading up to a nuclear war. Nightbreaker (1989) On the Beach (1959) – film depicting a gradually dying, post-apocalyptic world in Australia that remained after a nuclear Third World War. On the Beach (Showtime, 2000) – a remake of the 1959 film.
Colecovision, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64. Release. May 1984 (North America) Genre (s) Strategy. WarGames is a strategy video game developed by Coleco for the ColecoVision and published in 1984. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64. The game's goal is to defend the United States against nuclear attack, much in the style of ...
English. Box office. $2,044,892 [1] Testament is a 1983 drama film directed by Lynne Littman and written by John Sacret Young, based on a three-page story titled "The Last Testament" by Carol Amen (1933–1987), [2]. The film tells the story of how one small suburban town near the San Francisco Bay Area slowly falls apart after a nuclear war ...
A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation nuclear bombs, a more compact size, a lower mass, or a combination of these benefits. Characteristics of nuclear fusion reactions make possible ...
Apple (NAS: AAPL) co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was so incensed with Google's (NAS: GOOG) Android platform and what he perceived as Android's copying of the iPhone that he threatened to go ...