I like how the Senior Control has a button called LAUNCH when in fact NORAD had no capability to launch missiles. More to build up the tenseness of the situation lol

As I watch this, I remember coming home from elementary school and watching the news on TV during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We were being led out of our classrooms in the cinderblock buildings and shown to huddle down against the wall, covering our heads with our arms. My home town, San Antonio, was high on the list of targets for Soviet nuclear strikes. A very tense time. When I think how close humanities' representatives (aka politicians and elites) came to destroying us all and ruining the planet for 10,000 years, it brings tears to my eyes. And, now, there are finally enemy missiles in Cuba. I hope future administrations give a crab about truly protecting our country and people more than they care about lining their own pockets.

これで終わりではなく、これからが本当の正念場だった。

The CO at Loring AFB heard the nuke alarm and GTFO'd LMAO

Probably not getting a reply but will gonna ask Legit dumb question, curious too In real life, back then, would calling of E3 or AWACs to visually verify the missiles and then report to Cheynne works?

OMG! NATO is such a joke! What a fokken disgrace. Did you see that fat guy cheering like a blonde 12 yo with a body count of 20?

Loved this movie, showed the over reliance on computers and look at us today.

Ally Sheedy was gorgeous jn this film.

cute movie. I was a young USAF E-4 when I took a girl to see that movie. Very silly but fun. Not exactly "the day after" or "Threads" - but sure.

The elation when they learn there really were no bombs is kind of how I felt when the first cold war ended in the fall of the iron curtain and dissolution of USSR.

Lady saying "seconds to impact" had the perfect voice for this.

one of the greatest movies ever made

Heya Dan! 17 years, how'd life do ya?

Not even the best part of the scene/ movie. Joshua takes over and decides to launch the missiles anyway

“Impact” voice is so sexy! 😅

I believe she said "impak"

and then in all the excitment and confusion somebody accidentally pressed the launch key. oopsie 😐

1:13 who is she?

I watched this show several times. Just so cool.

Delta Sierra papa tango

I seen this in the movie hall at the time (Gen Z/Alpha note: movie hall= place that played movies on a big screen) and there was a real fear of nuclear war in the early to mid '80's, so much so that people were building bomb shelters in their back gardens.

Gawddamn it I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d do any good! 😂

“Impacc”

At the time, the real NORAD was using overhead projectors and felt pens. After the movie came out, there was a scramble to upgrade the display systems.

Gen. Beringer: "Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks." McKittrick: "I don't have to take that, you pig-eyed sack of sh*t." Gen. Beringer: "Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education."

2:28 - if the bomber were already in the air - WW3 started, the USSR would have seen them and launched something . also i would love to see an out-take of the guy waiting to push the Launch button Pushing the button and saying "OOPS"

my Joshua

nonsense!! comstat is watching everything!!!

It’s crazy to see “17 years ago” for a uploaded video and have it pop up in my recommendations

And are there really people who believe that THIS is what the USA is going to do for Kiev? Seriously? Never. Conventional perhaps, but never a nuclear war. Never!

I saw a documentary that said that during the cold war a new missile detection system in Russia detected a number of US missiles heading to Russia. The technician looked at the screens and decided that if the US were to attack, they would send everything they had. He he reported the detection as a computer error thus avoiding WW3. He was demoted and fired for pointing the faulty computer to everyone.

Fuck.....i bumped the button while celebrating

Kind of a silly scene. Doubtful they would have waited that long to launch, and when asked are you still there there is no way in hell any of them would have made a dramatic pause.

2400 warheads at one time.

5 seconds later, KA BOOM!

I was hoping that the video would talk about the Real World impact of this movie. I believe it was released during Ronald Regan's Presidency. The Studios send copies of movies to the White House as a courtesy. After seeing the movie Ronald Regan call the Defense Secretary and had him and about a dozen general watch the movie in the White house ASAP - and then asked the question of how vulnerable would the US Missile System be to some kind of computer failure at that time, not to mention how to prevent the scenario in the movie from occurring in the future. The White House copy of the movie was lent to the Pentagon so more could see it. My understanding is that vulnerabilities were found with the existing systems and rectified. Now that's the real impact of the movie War Games.

Great film, great cast, especially the computer.

Joshua’s creator has an uncanny resemblance to cumberpatch

Sorry, Barry, about, "Stand by to launch missiles on my command", but a general can't give the command to launch unilaterally. But, hey, it's a movie...

The black girl's voice gets me hot...

An irony behind this scene is that it runs directly contrary to the stated doctrine of the US nuclear deterrent, launch on warning. We would not wait out an attack before launching our missiles. Considering the incident in 1979 from which this movie draws inspiration, its a wonder how we haven't destroyed ourselves in a nuclear fire.

Michael Madsen got involved to me through Switzerland and said we are doing it red handed

The horrifying moment you realise that nobody has been watching the Russians this whole time.

The female Airman vocalizing the countdown stole this scene. That "Impact" line was perfect.

I need the "Impact" actor's voice as a ringtone. Let's see how bad I can increase people's blood pressure around me when I get a text.

Alternate Ending: the Soviets, having learned about the multiple false alarms from earlier, decide to take advantage of the confusion and actually launch a full-scale attack knowing that there will probably be no retaliation due to hesitancy.

Skynet during younger years.

I guess somebody must have pissed on a spark plug.

A minute or two later didn’t the super computer basically decide “F it! I’ll launch them myself!”? Lol

The part that always hits me is a few min later when WOPR is going to launch the missiles anyway, and Gen. Baranger says "I'm ordering our bombers back to fail-safe, we may have to go through with this thing after all." What a hard choice, but what choice did he have?