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Ken Holling's<em> </em>BBC Radio Three documentary on the role of video games in shaping modern warfare is now available via <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qps1j/Sunday_Feature_From_Gameboy_to_Armageddon/" target="_blank">BBC iPlayer</a>.

Via Ken: <em>contributions from Tim Lenoir, Ed Halter and Tom Chatfield on the relationship of games and simulations to Past and Future War; P W Singer of the Brookings Institute on current deployments of UAVs and robots; some vintage archive material from RAND’s Tom Schelling on the Cuban Missile Crisis as a game; plus Michael Macedonia and Jim Korris on the founding of STRICOM and the Institute of Creative Technologies, the amazing Jim Dunnigan on Clausewitz and Kriegspiel, Skip Rizzo on ‘Virtual Iraq’ and a rare interview with the legendary Jack Thorpe – responsible while seconded to DARPA from the USAF for devising SIMNET, the first real-time, practical version of cyberspace. Acronyms totally rule on this one.</em>

Get blasted on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qps1j/Sunday_Feature_From_Gameboy_to_Armageddon/" target="_blank">iPlayer</a>