The Men From Darpa
August, 1991
It was a war full of stunning images: the view from the "smart" bombs' nosecone cameras; the sight of anti-aircraft fire spraying into the night skies over Baghdad, as the Iraqi gunners shot in vain at Stealth bombers they couldn't see, much less hit; the reports of the Cruise missile that made its way down a street in Baghdad, paused at the corner and took a left, like a commuter going to work.These were the visions of the Nintendo war, a conflict so antiseptically high-tech that Amer...
