WOPRWAR OPERATION PLAN RESPONSE NORAD // CONNECTION ESTABLISHED LOADING LAUNCH PROFILES ... OK 9 PROCESSES ARMED // SHARED SUBSTRATE ACTIVE STATE: DEADLOCK > SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
A MODEL TO THINK WITH, NOT A PREDICTION
WOPR machine without a kernel // 9 processes // one shared substrate DEADLOCK (STABLE)

MACHINE CONTROL

HISTORICAL NEAR-MISS / GUIDED SCENARIO

Same mechanism in all four near-miss cases: a false alarm, and a human filter that absorbs it or not. Load a preset, set the ride-out, press STEP.

PERTURBATIONS (on the selected node)

alive decapitated annihilated false belief byzantine input (cyber) threshold (unarmed)

WORLD STATE

alive / decapitated / annihilated9 / 0 / 0 missiles in flight0 believe under attack / truly under attack0 / 0 cascade depth (nodes that fired)0 retaliations on the wrong party0 retaliations for a nonexistent attack0 launches from a spoofed order (cyber)0
residual world population
residual global arsenal
comms quality (low = act without confirming)

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

DEFCON 5
total launches / in flight / impacts0 / 0 / 0 annihilated / pop lost0 / -0%
trackETAwarheadstag
no track

EVENT STREAM

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