War games

War games is an 80s movie that talks about a machine that could simulate several war scenarios depending on the current conditions of each county involved in that specific war. This machine was created because there was a test for soldiers if they would be able to turn a key to activate a nuclear bomb to kill dozens of people. Turned out, soldiers weren't able to turn the key because they thought of all the people that bomb would kill, so this machine was built because doesn't really care how many people die if it needs to throw a bomb.

In the other hand, there is a geek guy called David Lightman that isn’t really interested in school, but he is really good at computers. So he change his and a friends grade so they pass the course. The movie were filmed in the 80s, so the internet was very different, he had to connect through dial up, so he put his computer to dial all numbers in the area of a videogame company so that he could get info on a game that isn’t out yet, he found what he thought was the company's files of its games, but then he looked that there were games with strange names like “global thermonuclear war”. That game ends up being the machine the government created to simulate the wars. The machine was created by Stephen Malken, who was an AI researcher when the machine was built, so it could learn more as the simulations were finished.

David started playing with the machine as the Soviet Union not knowing that he really started a simulation that would trick the military into thinking they were under attack. They tracked David down and explain to him what he has done.

The machine can’t really tell that the US is under attack, so he tries to launch lots of missiles. David tried to convince Stephen to help him stop the machine. He realized that the machine won’t stop playing even it has no chance of winning, so he put the machine to play tic tac toe so that the machine learns that there could be no winners, so it applies that new concept to the war simulator and discovers that, in some cases, the only way of winning is not to play, so the missiles were not launched.