Hacking the bomb? What Claude Mythos AI reveals about the gamble of nuclear deterrence

In 1983, the film "WarGames" imagined a teenager who accidentally accessed a Pentagon computer system and triggered a simulation program, subsequently interpreted as the prelude to a nuclear war. The film made such an impression on Ronald Reagan that he asked his advisers whether such an intrusion into America's most sensitive systems was possible. A week later, the answer came: "Mr. President, the problem is far worse than you think."