Cheyenne Mountain Complex

WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III. Martin Brest was originally the film's director, but was fired early into production.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (commonly abbreviated to NORAD NΟR-ad; ; ') is a bi-national mutual defense organization in Canada and the United States. Established 12 September 1957 as the North American Air Defense Command', NORAD is headquartered at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado, which also serves as the headquarters of United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM).

Military base within Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, United States