|John Costello| When I began working on this piece, I wanted to dig into what I see as the dichotomy of rational computers versus irrational humans struggling over nuclear war in WarGames (1983). I wanted to contrast a previous era’s acknowledgement that computers are programmed… Continue reading
|Eric Sorenson| As a teenager in the early 1980s I drew bullseyes on a Rand McNally road map of Minnesota, centered on the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and the Arsenal in Arden Hills, the two most likely targets of Soviet warheads, with each ring representing a different level of… Continue reading
|Caitlyn Speier| Growing up as a child of two soldiers, conversations about politics were sparse. My father graduated from West Point and maintained the rather officerly position that soldiers shouldn’t really speak about politics openly, because they were expected to serve under… Continue reading
