Re:Ask HN: List must watch documentary and movies for hacker
by a3n on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:48PM
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Dr. Strangelove. There are at least a couple incidents in the movie where mundane technical failure contributes to catastrophe, and where technical safeguards that rely on "human in the loop" fail because of humans.
The wikipedia article is itself as worth reading as watching the film. Bait: it mentions John von Neumann. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove