HackadayReplicating a Nuclear Event Detector For Fun and Probably Not Profit
Replicating a Nuclear Event Detector For Fun and Probably Not Profit https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/replicating-a-nuclear-event-detector-for-fun-and-probably-not-profit/
#Science #ToolHacks #Gammaraydetector #Globalthermonuclearwar #Nucleareventdetector
#Science #ToolHacks #Gammaraydetector #Globalthermonuclearwar #Nucleareventdetector
Alecia Batson (she/her)It seems now might be a good time for all to revist that classic #film, WarGames.
Denny"We will not accept a future of obsolescence; we either win together or perish together."
JdeBPIt's interesting how the general public's idea of a #GlobalThermonuclearWar, rooted in fiction, has changed.
#OnTheBeach is definitely an example of the idea of MAD, and #TomLehrer's "We'll all go together when we go!", that was present right up through #WarGames in 1983.
Then in 1984 with #TheTerminator the idea returned that with just enough 'duck and cover!' we might survive a thing that in reality we could not. (They had to make the T-1000 in #TerminatorGenisys ridiculously pause to do banter with its target in order to make it evadable by a human. Killing machines would kill the species stone dead very effectively.)
I thought to watch something not recorded by the TiVo to take a break from trying to clear some recording space.
So I looked at what was on the various channels live. There was a 1959 #GregoryPeck movie, set in Australia, post-war, with submarines. It was called On The Beach.
I was expecting some technicolour romp with lush South Pacific scenery. Perhaps some surfing or swimming or something.
How wrong I was!
It's a black-and-white post-apocalyptic tale of how Australia is the last place on Terra to succumb to radioactive fallout after a global thermonuclear war and everybody slowly dies. (G'day, professor Falken!)
Hell, no!
So back to the TiVo recordings and the made-for-TV romance with #JewelStaite it is, then.
Even though the premise of that is that the other halves of both of the protagonists, who are obviously Destined to Find Love, have recently died. It has to be more cheerful than #OnTheBeach.
AJCxZ0@Deciphersec Another satisfying episode on the second best hacker movie.
#Wargames #WOPR #WarOperationsPlanRespose #WouldYouLikeToPlayAGame #GlobalThermonuclearWar
Alec MuffettNixon: You may not have read about the time he told a dinner party at the White House, “I could leave this room, and in 25 minutes, 70 million people would be dead”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115338
#GlobalThermonuclearWar #nixon #politics
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115338
#GlobalThermonuclearWar #nixon #politics
alecmNixon: You may not have read about the time he told a dinner party at the White House, “I could leave this room, and in 25 minutes, 70 million people would be dead”
American Presidents, eh?
Nuclear weapons: How Cold War major Harold Hering asked a forbidden question that cost him his career
Lorry