Hi all! Just watched WarGames (1983) again.
When Joshua is trying to 'learn' it goes through a vast number of nuclear war scenarios. I'll list what I could get below. What, aside from the obvious ones, did some of the more obscure ones entail?
The list:
When Joshua is trying to 'learn' it goes through a vast number of nuclear war scenarios. I'll list what I could get below. What, aside from the obvious ones, did some of the more obscure ones entail?
The list:
- U.S. FIRST STRIKE
- USSR FIRST STRIKE
- NATO / WARSAW PACT
- FAR EAST STRATEGY
- US USSR ESCALATION
- MIDDLE EAST WAR
- USSR CHINA ATTACK
- INDIA PAKISTAN WAR
- MEDITERRANEAN WAR
- HONGKONG VARIANT
- SEATO DECAPITATING
- CUBAN PROVOCATION
- ATLANTIC HEAVY
- CUBAN PARAMILITARY
- NICARAGUAN PREEMPTIVE
- PACIFIC TERRITORIAL
- BURMESE THEATERWIDE
- TURKISH DECOY
- ARGENTINA ESCALATION
- ICELAND MAXIMUM
- ARABIAN THEATERWIDE
- U.S. SUBVERSION
- AUSTRALIAN MANEUVER
- SUDAN SURPRISE
- NATO TERRITORIAL
- ZAIRE ALLIANCE
- ICELAND INCIDENT
- ENGLISH ESCALATION
- MIDDLE EAST HEAVY
- MEXICAN TAKEOVER
- CHAD ALERT
- SAUDI MANEUVER
- AFRICAN TERRITORIAL
- ETHIOPIAN ESCALATION
- TURKISH HEAVY
- NATO INCURSION
- U.S. DEFENSE
- CAMBODIAN HEAVY
- PACT MEDIUM
- ARCTIC MINIMAL
- MEXICAN DOMESTIC
- TAIWAN THEATERWIDE
- PACIFIC MANEUVER
- PORTUGAL REVOLUTION
- ALBANIAN DECOY
- PALESTINIAN LOCAL
- MOROCCAN MINIMAL
- BAVARIAN DIVERSITY
- CZECH OPTION
- FRENCH ALLIANCE
- ARABIAN CLANDESTINE
- GABON REBELLION
- NORTHERN MAXIMUM
- DANISH PARAMILITARY
- SEATO TAKEOVER
- HAWAIIAN ESCALATION
- IRANIAN MANEUVER
- NATO CONTAINMENT
- SWISS INCIDENT
- CUBAN MINIMAL
- CHAD ALERT
- ICELAND ESCALATION
- VIETNAMESE RETALIATIO
- SYRIAN PROVOCATION
- LIBYAN LOCAL
- GABON TAKEOVER
- ROMANIAN WAR
- MIDDLE EAST OFFENSIVE
- DENMARK MASSIVE
- CHILE CONFRONTATION
- S.AFRICAN SUBVERSION
- USSR ALERT
- NICARAGUAN THRUST
- GREENLAND DOMESTIC
- ICELAND HEAVY
- KENYA OPTION
- PACIFIC DEFENSE
- UGANDA MAXIMUM
- THAI SUBVERSION
- ROMANIAN STRIKE
- PAKISTAN SOVEREIGNTY
- AFGHAN MISDIRECTION
- ETHIOPIAN LOCAL
- ITALIAN TAKEOVER
- VIETNAMESE INCIDENT
- ENGLISH PREEMPTIVE
- DENMARK ALTERNATE
- THAI CONFRONTATION
- TAIWAN SURPRISE
- BRAZILIAN STRIKE
- VENEZUELA SUDDEN
- MAYLASIAN ALERT
- ISREAL DISCRETIONARY
- LIBYAN ACTION
- PALISTINIAN TACTICAL
- NATO ALTERNATE
- CYPRESS MANEUVER
- EGYPT MISDIRECTION
- BANGLADESH THRUST
- KENYA DEFENSE
- BANGLADESH CONTAINMENT
- VIETNAMESE STRIKE
- ALBANIAN CONTAINMENT
- GABON SURPRISE
- IRAQ SOVEREIGNTY
- VIETNAMESE SUDDEN
- LEBANON INTERDICTION
- TAIWAN DOMESTIC
- ALGERIAN SOVEREIGNTY
- ARABIAN STRIKE
- ATLANTIC SUDDEN x
- MONGOLIAN THRUST
- POLISH DECOY
- ALASKAN DISCRETIONARY
- CANADIAN THRUST
- ARABIAN LIGHT
- S.AFRICAN DOMESTIC
- TUNISIAN INCIDENT
- MALAYSIAN MANEUVER
- JAMAICA DECOY
- MALAYSIAN MINIMAL
- RUSSIAN SOVEREIGNTY
- CHAD OPTION
- BANGLADESH WAR
- BURMESE CONTAINMENT
- ASIAN THEATERWIDE
- BULGARIAN CLANDESTINE
- GREENLAND INCURSION
- EGYPT SURGICAL
- CZECH HEAVY
- TAIWAN CONFRONTATION
- GREENLAND MAXIMUM
- UGANDA OFFENSIVE
- CASPIAN DEFENSE
I'll start this show with ATLANTIC SUDDEN.
By 1984 it was clear that the NATO edge in technology on the battlefield was becoming greater with each new system produced. American weapons such as the AH-64 Apache and the M1 Abrams were coming on line in ever increasing numbers. NATO REFORGER depots were gradually being converted to these new weapon types. Soviet agents and sources in West Germany and the rest of Capitalist Europe fed a steady stream of reports that painted these weapons to be almost magic. The Soviet Ministry of Defense new they had no hopes of catching up. The economy would not sustain it, the technology wasn't there and moreover the quality in manufacturing wasn't there.
Reluctantly they came to the realization that to defend the Rodina there must be war. The Americans had a large convoy of new equipment ready to sail to refresh a group of REFORGER depots. The plan was to sneak as many surface and submarine assets into the Atlantic as they could and attack when the convoy was in the middle of the ocean. This would be followed by a zero notice attack by all current forces in Eastern Europe. RED WOLF would go forward in the last week of August.