except it doesn't just know everything about and have control over the instrumentalities related to Global Thermonuclear War -- it knows everything that is known, everything that's ever been recorded, sees in real time through every sensor that exists, and controls basically all instrumentalities
and rather than it taking time for the computer to step by step go through that particular whole progression of running and playing GTW scenarios, it (for example, without limitation, sees everything else all the time too) runs/sees/analyzes the whole progression of recent and pending human civilization, simultaneously in countless billions of parallel iterations down to the last detail of the last individual, instantly
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty." from John Philpot Curran, Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790