![]() The Government does figure out that someone has hacked into their supercomputer before they release any missiles. Believing he has hacked into a video game software company, he challenges the computer to a game of "Global Thermonuclear War." This launches no real missiles on the Russian side, but it plays hell with said computer opponent, WOPR, the US military's computerized missile-detection and launch system. A 1983 Cold War sci-fi thriller directed by John Badham, starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, and Barry Corbin.ĭavid Lightman (Broderick) is a teenaged Playful Hacker from Seattle who nearly sets World War III into motion by playing a game with a computer that doesn't know the difference between games and reality. ![]()
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