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* ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaOccupationalHazards'': Being based on the NORAD Chyenne Mountain Complex, the EQUAD facility has one of its own, complete with a [[[TheBigBoard Big Board]]. As one of the authors has an obvious fascination with Dr. Strangelove, this should come as no surprise.
** The sequel ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaEmptyQuiver'' features even more, as while the EQUAD War Room is mentioned in an early chapter, it's later revealed that there's also a smaller War Room at the Vanhoover Air Base, as well as at Fort Maple. In both of the latter cases, people have to be reminded they can't fight in there.

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* In ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'', John Connor and Kate Brewster are sent to UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era war room bunker [[spoiler: in order to survive Judgment Day]].

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* ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' included a rare example of a [[http://www.bondmovies.com/stills/octopussy/11.jpg Soviet War Room]].

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* ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' included a rare example of a [[http://www.[[https://www.bondmovies.com/stills/octopussy/11.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/1116.jpg Soviet War Room]].


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* ''Film/IndependenceDay'' features two. One is aboard Air Force One, where Whitmore, Grey, and Nimzicki observe the initial counterattack. Later, the control room of Area 51 is converted into one as they process all information on the rapidly losing fight.
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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': High lords typically have a war room in their castles or in the field where they plan their next move around an elaborate BigBoard.

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': High lords typically have a war room in their castles or in the field where they plan their next move around an elaborate BigBoard.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Parodied in an episode where the Warners get pulled to Camelot to deal with a dragon that's causing havoc across the kingdom. Yakko calls his siblings to the War Room, then asks King Arthur where the War Room is. When Arthur says they don't have one, Wakko [[{{Hammerspace}} pulls one out of his bag]]. Inside is a setup that would make any general or MadScientist envious, with monitors on every wall showing the rampaging dragon and at the bottom a group of military leaders and scientists around a table debating whether to destroy the dragon or capture it for study. The Warners decide to forget the War Room after that and deal with the dragon themselves.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Parodied in an episode where the Warners get pulled to Camelot to deal with a dragon that's causing havoc across the kingdom. Yakko calls his siblings to the War Room, then asks King Arthur where the War Room is. When Arthur says they don't have one, Wakko [[{{Hammerspace}} pulls one out of his bag]]. Inside is a setup that would make any general or MadScientist envious, with monitors on every wall showing the rampaging dragon and at the bottom a group of military leaders and scientists scientists[[note]]including Dr. Strangelove[[/note]] around a table debating whether to destroy the dragon or capture it for study. The Warners decide to forget the War Room after that and deal with the dragon themselves.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Parodied in a episode where the Warners get pulled to Camelot to deal with a dragon that's causing havoc across the kingdom. Yakko calls his siblings to the War Room, then asks King Arthur where the War Room is. When Arthur says they don't have one, Wakko [[{{Hammerspace}} pulls one out of his bag]]. Inside is a setup that would make any general or MadScientist envious, with monitors on every wall showing the rampaging dragon and at the bottom a group of military leaders and scientists around a table debating whether to destroy the dragon or capture it for study. The Warners decide to forget the War Room after that.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Parodied in a an episode where the Warners get pulled to Camelot to deal with a dragon that's causing havoc across the kingdom. Yakko calls his siblings to the War Room, then asks King Arthur where the War Room is. When Arthur says they don't have one, Wakko [[{{Hammerspace}} pulls one out of his bag]]. Inside is a setup that would make any general or MadScientist envious, with monitors on every wall showing the rampaging dragon and at the bottom a group of military leaders and scientists around a table debating whether to destroy the dragon or capture it for study. The Warners decide to forget the War Room after that.that and deal with the dragon themselves.
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* ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'': The Nazi leadership has a command bunker in Berlin to oversee their global strategic forces and nuclear arsenal in a room very reminiscent of the War Room from ''Film/DrStrangelove''.
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* The White House Situation Room, as seen in the [[http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5226/5680724572_d4696d593d_b.jpg historic photo]] of President Obama's National Security team watching the raid on Usama Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.

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* The White House Situation Room, as seen in the [[http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5226/5680724572_d4696d593d_b.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Obama_and_Biden_await_updates_on_bin_Laden.jpg historic photo]] of President Obama's National Security team watching the raid on Usama Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.
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** Her original castle at Villain's Vale had one too, but we never see it occupied by more than two people.
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* The NASA control center at Cape Canaveral in ''KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl''
* Dornkirk's throne room in ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne''.

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* The NASA control center at Cape Canaveral in ''KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl''
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* Dornkirk's throne room in ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne''.''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne''.
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. Root has a rare OhCrap moment when she's snooping around the restricted floor of a mental hospital, peeks in a window and sees Greer standing in front of an enormous computer screen showing Team Samaritan's worldwide operations. She's just stumbled into their secret headquarters.
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** He wasn't quite wrong as the Pentagon does have a war room known as the National Military Command Center. Its job is to monitor world wide events that effect U.S. national security and, in the event everything goes tits up, send out the emergency action messages to American nuclear subs and silos.
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* Music/{{Muse}}'s music video for "Time Is Running Out" takes place in a war room as a ShoutOut to ''Only example on the page is HeyItsThatGuy / HeyItsThatVoice, which have had their wicks cut per TRS.DrStrangelove''.

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* Music/{{Muse}}'s music video for "Time Is Running Out" takes place in a war room as a ShoutOut to ''Only example on the page is HeyItsThatGuy / HeyItsThatVoice, which have had their wicks cut per TRS.DrStrangelove''.''Film/DrStrangelove''.
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* Music/{{Muse}}'s music video for "Time Is Running Out" takes place in a war room as a ShoutOut to ''DrStrangelove''.

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* Music/{{Muse}}'s music video for "Time Is Running Out" takes place in a war room as a ShoutOut to ''DrStrangelove''.''Only example on the page is HeyItsThatGuy / HeyItsThatVoice, which have had their wicks cut per TRS.DrStrangelove''.
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* TheWhiteHouse Situation Room in ''TheWestWing'' and [[GovernmentProcedural other series set there]], which is usually considerably bigger and more dramatically lit than the real life version.

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* ''{{UFO}}''. SHADO's art deco war room is located [[FrontOrganisation underneath a film studio]].

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* In the movie ''Film/WarGames'' a set is built to represent NORAD's War Room. Much larger and more impressive than the real thing. In a possible ShoutOut to the ''DrStrangelove'' quote at the top, General Beringer tells someone not to run in the room, as they could get hurt.
** But for some reason, the NORAD war room you see in the movies never has any Canadians present, even though it's the North American Air Defence alliance.

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* In the movie ''Film/WarGames'' a set is built to represent NORAD's War Room. Much larger and more impressive than the real thing. In a possible ShoutOut to the ''DrStrangelove'' quote at the top, General Beringer tells someone not to run in the room, as they could get hurt.
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But for some reason, the NORAD war room you see in the movies never has any Canadians present, even though it's the North American Air Defence alliance.
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* The Hall of Justice from ''{{Superfriends}}''.

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* Mount Weather from ''Series/{{The 100}}'' has a control room that monitors and controls the entire mountain, from communications to defense systems to life support.
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* The day after being elected, President-elect Ronald Reagan went to the Pentagon and demanded to see the War Room; on being told that no such place existed, he replied "Yes it does! I saw it in "Dr. Strangelove!"; it took a long time, using lots of monosyllables, to convince him that it was "just a movie".
* When George W. Bush was elected, a general at NORAD was heard to groan, "Oh God, he's going to demand to see the Stargate!"
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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': The Zephyr One, the CoolPlane that the SHIELD team starts using in Season 3, has its own CIC, for when it's acting as a mobile base.
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* ''FanFic/TheEquestrianWindMage'': Season 2 reveals that Vaati has one in the Palace of the Winds, being a large room containing a large table with a map of Hyrule inlaid on its surface (which he upgrades to one of Equestria).
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* In ''Webcomic/PowerOfEther'', while not exactly a "War room," panel 4 of [[http://www.powerofether.com/archive/14-comic-1-11 this]] page looks quite similar. It's implied to be an emergency meeting room for all leaders of the 8 factions on Liba, as they decide what to do with the gifted. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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What... is even going on here? Is this an example? From what film? Also, someone more familiar with the movie should add context to Armageddon and give it its own bullet.


* Undoubtedly what the new President Ronald Reagan was thinking of when, on his first tour of his new home, he asked to be shown the White House's War Room.
** The RealLife version is rather impressive too, and probably inspired most of the 'rows of consoles' examples here.
** Though not impressive enough for ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' which designed a new one.

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* %%* Undoubtedly what the new President Ronald Reagan was thinking of when, on his first tour of his new home, he asked to be shown the White House's War Room.
** %%** The RealLife version is rather impressive too, and probably inspired most of the 'rows of consoles' examples here.
** %%** Though not impressive enough for ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' which designed a new one.

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* The movie ''Film/FailSafe''.


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* The movie ''Film/FailSafe'', like [[DuelingWorks its sparring partner Dr. Strangelove]], is largely set in a cavernous underground war room where the characters receive constant reports on the possibility of impending nuclear war. While likely done [[BottleEpisode largely for budget reasons]], it's effective at getting the audience into the same mindset as the characters, some of whom begin to conceive of the whole thing as an elaborate puzzle or exercise, forgetting the staggering human costs at stake. [[spoiler: Until the series of {{Wham Shot}}s that end the movie, which [[MoodWhiplash suddenly remind the viewer of the human lives that are about to be lost]] in the limited nuclear exchange that follows.]]
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* [[MagnificentBastard Maleficent]] and [[Franchise/KingdomHearts her Disney villain allies]] had a war room in their HQ in Hollow Bastion. There they kept a close eye on Sora through a hologram, while thinking out strategies on how to find the Princessess of Hearts or how to conquer the worlds around the universe. [[Film/DrStrangelove The fighting in the war room]] happens when Sora, Donald, Goofy and their new ally Beast took down Maleficent.

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* [[MagnificentBastard Maleficent]] and [[Franchise/KingdomHearts her Disney villain allies]] had a war room in their HQ in Hollow Bastion. There they kept a close eye on Sora through a hologram, while thinking out strategies on how to find the Princessess of Hearts or how to conquer the worlds around the universe. [[Film/DrStrangelove The fighting in the war room]] room happens when Sora, Donald, Goofy and their new ally Beast took down Maleficent.
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* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': HERZ's HomeBase -the organization the main characters work for- has one where the cast often holds meetings and reunions.
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Zero Context Example. And it\'s just a Mission Control room, since it\'s a \"peaceful\" crisis.


* ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}''.
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* While not a war room, [[http://i.imgur.com/zzwYrwp.jpg this picture of the boardroom]] at the [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup FIFA headquarters]] has often been visually associated with the DrStrangelove setup.

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