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In "WarGames," what’s the name of the computer that almost starts a nuclear war?

In "WarGames," what’s the name of the computer that almost starts a nuclear war?
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The 1983 classic "WarGames" gave every tech-savvy kid a new nightmare scenario: what if your innocent computer gaming accidentally triggered World War III? When teenage hacker David Lightman connects to what he thinks is a gaming company's computer, he instead finds himself playing "Global Thermonuclear War" with a military supercomputer that doesn't realize it's just a game. But what was the name of this apocalyptic machine?

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