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WarGames (1983) is a typical liberal "anti-war" movie, that is, a movie with the premise that America is wrong and American government leaders are stupid. The movie begins with a war exercise to discover what percent of missile launch teams will fire nuclear missiles with no information other than the fact that the launch order has been transmitted. Management is disappointed to discover that 1 in 5 teams refused to launch. So the old system, which requires two men to agree independently that the launch order is valid, is replaced with an automatic launch mechanism.
Matthew Broderick plays a teenager whose hobbies are video games (like the classic Galaga) and cracking into computer systems. In typical liberal style, the movie takes as a premise that a crucially important military computer system would provide a list of its resources to someone who had not logged in.