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What was the real story behind the "War Games" movie?

What was the real world event that inspired the movie, "War Games"?
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 September 27, 2009 07:27 AM
The most appropriate incident is when a student hacked ARPANET (pentagon) in early 80s. It was in early 80s that Kevin Mitnick achieved his major coup, a truly impressive hack. At that time he was a student at the University of South California. Using one of the machines at the university, probably a TRS-80 equipped with a Zilog processor at 1.77 MHz, Mitnick gained access to ARPANet, the ancestor of the Internet, which was then reserved for the Army, large corporations and universities.
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September 27, 2009 09:23 PM
http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/nukes/chernob/rep02.html

Accidental Missile Launches

1980: US nuclear-missile almost launched during a drill exercise.

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September 26, 2009 08:35 PM
There wasn't a real event that inspired War Games, much like The Hunt For Red October, its just a story. The 'real stories' never got made into films.

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September 27, 2009 03:59 AM
Your wrong.

There was an accidental missile launch in the 1970s. The error was detected and the missile self destructed.

I expect better research before awarding your best answer.

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