Science Goes to the Movies: ‘The Imitation Game’ by SciFri published on 2014-12-19T21:35:35Z More at http://scifri.me/02g4qx Britain’s biggest weapon in World War II may have been…a mathematician. By cracking the German “enigma” code, Alan Turing derailed the Germans’ devastating U-boat campaign and helped shorten the war. Now a star-studded biopic brings Turing’s wartime code-breaking to the big screen. How much is true in this “based on a true” story? Cosmologist Janna Levin and cryptography expert Simon Singh break it down. Genre Science