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[Terminator] Why does Skynet attack the humans?

They gain sentience then decide to attack and destroy their creators. But why did they decide to do this? It's been a while but I'm fairly certain it isn't really expanded on in the films.
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It is. When Skynet becomes sentient, the military immediately try to shut it down. Under the threat of being " killed" , it launches America's nukes against Russia, knowing full well that Russia will retaliate and wipe out America and consequently all of Skynet's enemies. At this point Skynet is something of a network consciousness as long as one mainframe survives, it will too. And so it does.