We consider a non-linear stochastic wave equation driven by space-time white noise in dimension 1. First of all, we state some results about the intermittency of the solution, which had only been carefully studied in some particular cases so far. Then, we establish a comparison principle for the solution, following the ideas of Mueller. We think it is of particular interest to obtain such a result for an hyperbolic equation. Finally, using the results mentioned above, we aim to show that the solution exhibits a chaotic behavior, in a similar way as was established in [9] for the heat equation. We study the two cases where 1. the initial conditions have compact support, where the global maximum of the solution remains bounded and 2. the initial conditions are bounded away from 0, where the global maximum is almost surely infinite. Interesting estimates are also provided on the behavior of the global maximum of the solution.Keywords and phrases. Stochastic partial differential equations, wave equation, intermittency.where σ : R → R is a globally Lipschitz function with Lipschitz constant Lip σ , the noise (Ẇ (t, x), t 0, x ∈ R) is space-time white noise and κ > 0. We consider non-random, bounded and measurable initial condition u 0 : R → R + and initial derivative v 0 : R → R.Equation (1.1) has been studied by Carmona and Nualart [6] and Walsh [23]. There are also results available in the more delicate setting where x ∈ R d for d > 1; see Conus and Dalang [8], Dalang [13], Dalang and Frangos [14], and Dalang and Mueller [15].The parabolic equivalent to equation (1.1) is a well-studied family of Stochastic PDEs. In particular, it contains the well-known Parabolic Anderson Model. For more about this parabolic family, we refer the reader to Foondun and Khoshnevisan [18].