Wargames

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Sun Mar 22 09:34:44 1998

On 22 Mar 98 at 13:36, Jack Peacock wrote:

> >I just saw Wargames; what an excellent movie! I encourage
> everyone who
> >hasn't seen it already to see it.
> >
> >I ask this question when seeing any technology-based movie;
> >how much of the technology is actually possible? Who was
> Professor
> >Falken in the movie based upon? Can a JOSHUA be built?
>
> Look for another movie sometime, "Dr. Strangelove". The crazed
> nuclear scientist character in most all movies is based on Dr.
> Edward Teller, father of the US H-bomb (Sakharov produced the
> soviet H-bomb at the same time) and an influential advisor to
> Eisenhower. Teller is also the guy who convinced Reagan to go
> ahead with the "Star Wars" missle defense program (and if you
> think that "Star Wars" was a stupid idea that was cancelled,
> guess again, it is alive and well, just goes by other names
> these days).

One of those names is HARP(High Altitude Research Project)
based on secret papers seized by the government when Tesla died.
Scary stuff that would allow the US to dispupt communication transmission
and also selectively bombard problematic regions with ELF which is known
to cause problems with cognitive processes. Its facilities are in Alaska and is
probably operational.
 
> As for the rest of the movie, it was pure Hollywood. Secure
> facilities don't have unsecured phone line, and especially no
> incoming phone lines. BTW, the kid's computer was an IMSAI
> S-100, and the graphics (if I recall correctly) were generated
> by Godbout S-100 systems.
> Jack Peacock
>
>
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