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WarGames (1983)
In director John Badham's sci-fi fantasy:
- the scene of young computer-game player/hacker
David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) challenging NORAD's military
super-computer (WOPR - War Operations Plan Response) to a 'simulated'
game of Global Thermonuclear War ("SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?...Love
to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?") - not realizing
that the computer was connected to the US arsenal of ICBM missiles
- the tense scene in the NORAD headquarters where David
helped to 'teach' the computer to 'learn' how to play itself in an
endless series of tied Tic-Tac-Toe games - thereby getting it to
stop its play (by understanding the concept of mutual assured destruction
with no winners)
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