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Many naval vessels have a "ward room", the officer's mess, which is often misheard as the War Room. Here, the "war room" proper would be the Combat Information Center, or [[AC: cic]].

* Cabinet War Rooms underneath Whitehall in London, serving as the nerve centre of Britain's war effort.
* TruthInTelevision: Militaries and other Armed (and sometimes even unarmed, see political campaigns) factions tend to have these for a reason, as they generally serve as a large, central meeting area for conferences with underlings and field leaders to talk things through, plan out future moves and contingencies, and anticipate future developments.

->''"Gentlemen, [[HypocriticalHumor you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!]]"''

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

* The Lancers in ''Webcomic/{{Project0}}'' meet here after one of their naval ships goes down. Complete with [[http://www.centralcitytower.com/#!22-situation/c1gcy wall sized monitor, and a hologram projector in the middle of the table]].

* WOOHP Headquarters in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''.

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* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', the Rebel Alliance keeps multiple War Rooms -- one on Yavin IV, one on Hoth, and one aboard ''Home One'', as well as others we don't get to see. The Jedi council chamber might also qualify, even though matters of war are not the only thing discussed there.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' has security where you need your tongue, both elbows, feet and your [[spoiler: rear-end]] scanned just to get in.

* ''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 big board. The most frequently-featured one is the war room on Dragonstone (first used by Stannis, then Daenerys) with its huge table map of Westeros, which was built by Aegon the Conqueror before he invaded the continent three centuries earlier.
** In Season 7, Cersei has the floor of a courtyard in the Red Keep painted into a map of Westeros, in order to better plan the upcoming war with her various enemies.

* TheWhiteHouse Situation Room in ''Series/TheWestWing'' and [[GovernmentProcedural other series set there]], which is usually considerably bigger and more dramatically lit than the real life version.
* The Army of Light's War Room on ''Series/BabylonFive'', which was a different set from TheBridge.

* The main area of the Series/{{Torchwood}} Hub.
* Astrometrics serves this function in the later seasons of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
* ''Series/{{UFO}}''. SHADO's art deco war room is located [[FrontOrganisation underneath a film studio]].
* The ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "In Country" is an aversion to this trope as it features a fairly mundane looking National Military Command Center in UsefulNotes/ThePentagon.
* The Daleks have one in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Mission to the Unknown" and the serial "The Daleks' Master Plan". Amusingly, there's [[SpecialEffectFailure rubber scuffs around the bottom of the circular table where the Daleks kept running their bumpers into it]].
* ''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.

* ''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.
* ''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''.
* The equivalent on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' is MTAC, which looks vaguely like a converted movie theater (and was even used that way once, courtesy of Tony [=DiNozzo=]).

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* ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Call of Duty 4]]'' features a level called "No Fighting in the War Room." However, ''lots'' of fighting ''does'' happen in the titular war room later on. The title of the level itself is a nod to the quote from Dr. Strangelove.
* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', some maps, such as 2fort, feature many War Rooms seen through windows to the side, which assist in giving the game its SpyFiction feel.
* In the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxSaveTheWorld'' episode ''Abe Lincoln Must Die'', the War Room in the White House serves three purposes: drink coffee, eat cookies, and launch missiles.
* ''EvilGenius'' has a control room, which looks and acts like a war room. Except you dispatch mooks instead of conquering territories. It also has Inner Sanctum with Type 2 conference table.
* [[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. The fighting in the war room happens when Sora, Donald, Goofy and their new ally Beast took down Maleficent.

* The Inquisition of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' has one of these, which mostly consists of a small room with a large table in the middle that they use to plan battles and missions.
* In the ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' series, the central compartment of the ''Ebon Hawk'' serves as this.

* One variation of ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' lets the PCs play High Programmers, who occasionally get summoned to a Situation Room to coordinate Alpha Complex's response to an emergency.

->''"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"''

* ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Call of Duty 4]]'' features a level called "No Fighting in the War Room." However, ''lots'' of fighting ''does'' happen in the titular war room later on. The title of the level itself is a nod to the quote from Dr. Stranglove.

* ''EvilGenius'' has a control room, which looks like war room and acts like one. Except you dispatch mooks instead of conquering territories. It also has Inner Sanctum with Type 2 conference table.

** TruthInTelevision. The US Navy does in fact have a pair of ships specifically designed and built to act as command and control vessels for major amphibious assaults - the Blue Ridge-class.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' has type 1 of the CrazyAwesome variety, where you need your tongue, both elbows, feet and your [[spoiler: rear-end]] scanned just to get in.

Many naval vessels have a "ward room", the officer's mess, which is often misheard as the War Room. Here, the "war room" proper would be the Combat Information Center, or [=CIC=].

** Also, the TransatlanticEquivalent [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_Office_Briefing_Room#mediaviewer/File:Cabinet_Office_Briefing_Room.jpg Cabinet Office Briefing Room]], or [[FunWithAcronyms COBRA]].

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

** Home of NORAD. However, RealityIsUnrealistic and the real Command Center is much smaller than in the movies. When most shows and films were made it was even less impressive than it is today. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/NORADCommandCenter.jpg Here is what it looks like]] today.

Many naval vessels have a "ward room", the officer's mess, which is often misheard as The War Room. (The "war room" you're looking for is the Combat Information Center or [=CIC=])

* Reportedly soon after being elected, President-elect Ronald Reagan went to the Pentagon and wanted to see the War Room; he was disappointed when he was told the real thing didn't look anything like what was in ''Dr. Strangelove.''

* 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".
** 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.

* ''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 big board.

* 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.

*** Ironically, it was this exact circumstance that contributed to France losing the Battle of France in WW2 - the general staff was also residing in a single chateau, but the only communication services that were available to them were hourly motorcycle messengers.

* ''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.