"Back to the Cold War" is the fourth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series South Park.
[3][6] At South Park Elementary, Mr. Garrison tells his fourth-graders that he and his boyfriend Rick got into a fight, while the students are worried about Vladimir Putin.
Mackey goes to his childhood family home to use a vintage floppy disk and dial-up modem to infiltrate the computers at NORAD.
Mackey uses BASIC commands to hack the root system, emulating a Russian nuclear attack, triggering an escalation to DEFCON-3.
As Mackey prepares to escalate NORAD to DEFCON-2, his mother interrupts and makes him realize the true source of his nostalgia is the fact that he is getting old.