WarGames, the 1983 American Cold War science fiction techno-thriller

2023 will be the 40th anniversary since the release of the WarGames movie. Now the world might be on the verge of a global scale conflagration, if things aren't peacefully resolved.

https://www.wired.com/2008/07/ff-wargames , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames#Plot

Release dates	May 7, 1983 (Cannes) June 3, 1983 (United States)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames#Influence , https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wargames

So a few months after the wide release of the WarGames movie, a potentially serious situation arose.

"On 26 September 1983, during the Cold War, the nuclear early-warning radar of the Soviet Union reported the launch of one intercontinental ballistic missile with four more missiles behind it, from bases in the United States. These missile attack warnings were suspected to be false alarms by Stanislav Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces on duty at the command center of the early-warning system. He decided to wait for corroborating evidence—of which none arrived—rather than immediately relaying the warning up the chain-of-command. This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack against the United States and its NATO allies, which would likely have resulted in an escalation to a full-scale nuclear war. Investigation of the satellite warning system later determined that the system had indeed malfunctioned." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident