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I've heard a story that Ronald Reagan became super-dedicated to ending the Cold War after watching "WarGames" and finding out that computer glitches had already nearly caused nuclear war just like in the movie. This story can't be possibly be true, right?

by /u/MisterBadIdea2 in /r/AskHistorians

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