Yeah it is about some device that can see into the future. Which includes a nuclear attack on Seattle in response of the US launching a preemptive strike against a nameless country. The enemy country is never mentioned but the angle that the ICBM warhead hits in the movie is obviously from North Korea. The moral of the movie was "no preemptive strikes to disarm enemies before they become a threat." though.
Or maybe it's a reference to the basic concept of most Greek tragedies: attempts to devine the future in order to avoid the future do nothing but ensure the future. Every Greek tragedy that used the Oracle at Delphi (like Oedipus, and Paris and Troy) had this same basic plot structure, the attempts to make the Oracle wrong were what made the predictions come to pass.