It has been said that war is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. So what goes on during the long boring parts? I always assumed idle minds at war were occupied by the endless shining of boots and smoky rounds of poker. Oh, but it’s so much unbelievably sexier. – – – As early as 1956, anxious airmen in the Air Force were doodling pin-up girls from Esquire on the cathode ray tube monitors of massive mainframe computers. Among this very serious business of detecting incoming nuclear threats, someone decided to commandeer the AN/FSQ-7’s computing power…