Analysis The Year Hollywood Changed the National Security Debate In 1983, two movies sought to educate and alarm the public about the risks of new technologies. A pencil drawing of a man smiling and wearing glasses Julian E. Zelizer By Julian E. Zelizer, a columnist at Foreign Policy and a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. Sign up for Julian’s newsletter, The Long View, here. A black and white photograph of actors Dabney Coleman (from left), Duncan Wilmore and Juanin Clay as they stand infant of the ‘NORAD’ control center, a military AI-powered supercomputer in "WarGames,“ 1983....