Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, believing it to be a computer game. The computer, now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between ...

Technically, these parts of the game are taking place in a virtual reality simulation of the past where an eternal battle between religious extremists and dispossessed renegades takes place ...

So if the west does abandon Ukraine, game theory suggests that the world should expect a proliferation of nuclear powers.