Is it a game, or is it real?
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
artificial intelligence (a.i.)
computer
government
hacker
video game
cold war
fbi
prosecution
norad
nuclear threat