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ƵWar GamesƵ 1983 techno-thriller movie depicts young computer hacker David accessing War Operation Plan Response (WOPR) supercomputer. He seeks to play newest computer games but instead initiates countdown to global thermonuclear war by triggering artificially intelligent WOPR supercomputer. In end, Professor Falken and David direct WOPR to play tic-tac-toe. From tic-tac-toe lesson, WOPR learns only way to win game of thermonuclear war is not to play.

Before 1991 Soviet Union collapse, it produces 27,000 nuclear weapons with enough material to build three times more weapons. Under supposedly binding nonaggression treaties, former Soviet republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine all returned Soviet-era nuclear materials to post-communist Russia. Yet, fear grows about disposition of large uranium and plutonium stockpiles.

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