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Warren?

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You'll wake yourself up.

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I'll get you breakfast.

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No time.
The meeting starts at 10:00.

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Don't worry about it.
They always have coffee there.

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You're flying down?

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I'll check out one of the trainers.
Then I can get back when I want.

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What are you doing today?

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Shopping.

10
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Have to get clothes
for the boys.

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They grow so fast.

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Need any money?
I cashed a check.

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I had the dream again.

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Always ends at the same place.

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I guess that's just as well.

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Sometime I'm going to see
that matador, find out who he is.

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When I do, that's the end of me.

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Don't talk like that.
It's only a dream.

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Maybe I ought to resign.

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What good would that do?

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I'm sure it would make the dream
go away. They're connected.

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Katie,
the dream and what I'm doing...

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Sometimes I feel the only way
I can make it disappear is to resign.

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But you can't resign.
You can't give up your whole life.

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You're my life too.

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You and the boys.

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Maybe I have to choose.

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Or maybe it's too late.

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Warren, don't go.
Skip the meeting.

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Tell them my wife insists
I go shopping?

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I'll skip the shopping.

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We could have lunch together.
We haven't done that in months.

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A little French restaurant
with wine.

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This meeting is special.
The secretary will be there.

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They're even holding it in the war room
to show how up-to-date we are.

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You could do with a day off.

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In the middle of the week?
That's immoral.

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We can go out for dinner.
I'll be back by then.

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If I can get a sitter.

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You got me.
You can get anything.

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What would I do without you?

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You wouldn't do very well.

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There's no chance of that,
is there?

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None at all.

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First you said 100 million dead.

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Now you say 60 million.

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I say 60 million is perhaps
the highest price...

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we should be prepared
to pay in a war.

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What's the difference between
60 million dead and a hundred million?

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- Forty million.
- Some difference.

51
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Are you saying saving 40 million lives
is of no importance?

52
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You miss the point, Professor.

53
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Saving those 60 million lives
is what's important.

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Face facts, Mr. Foster.
We're talking about war.

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Every war, including thermonuclear war,
must have a winner and a loser.

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Which would you rather be?

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In a nuclear war, everyone loses.
War isn't what it used to be.

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It's still the resolution
of economic and political conflict.

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What kind of resolution
with 100 million dead?

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- It doesn't have to be 100 million.
- Even 60!

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The same
as a thousand years ago, sir...

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when you also had wars
that wiped out whole peoples.

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The point is still who wins and who
loses, the survival of a culture.

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A culture?

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With most of its people dead...

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the rest dying,
the food poisoned...

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the air unfit to breathe.

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- You call that a culture?
- Yes, I do.

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I am not a poet.
I'm a political scientist...

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who would rather have an American
culture survive than a Russian one.

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But what would it really be like?
Who would survive?

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It's an interesting question.

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I would predict...

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convicts and file clerks.

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The worst convicts, those deep down
in solitary confinement...

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and the most ordinary
file clerks...

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probably for large
insurance companies...

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because they would be
in fireproofed rooms...

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protected by tons of the best insulator
in the world: Paper.

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Then imagine what will happen.

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The small group of vicious criminals
will fight the army of file clerks...

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for the remaining means of life.

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The convicts
will know violence...

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but the file clerks
will know organization.

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Who do you think will win?

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It's all hypothesis, of course,
but fun to play around with.

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Time to go home. I didn't mean
to hold forth so long.

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I don't usually come to a supper party
and talk through to breakfast.

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Nonsense. We were fascinated. I hope
we didn't keep you from your work.

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Not at all. I've got
a 10:00 meeting at the Pentagon.

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Plenty of time
to get home and change.

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You must come again,
Professor Groeteschele, with your wife.

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I'd be delighted.

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I'm Ilsa Wolfe.
We were introduced before dinner.

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I'd like you to take me home.

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You'll have to give me directions.

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Just stay on this road.

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You could joke about the convicts
and file clerks...

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because you know
there won't be any survivors.

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Not many.

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None at all.

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That's the beauty of it.

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I've heard nuclear war called
a lot of things, but never beautiful.

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People are afraid to call it that,
but that's what they feel.

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The beauty of death?

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Don't patronize me.

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What else but that
are you selling, Professor?

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We all know we're going to die...

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but you make a marvelous game out of it
that includes the whole world.

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- You make it seem possible.
- It is possible, even probable.

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You make death an entertainment...

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something that can be played
in a living room.

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As good a place as any.

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There's an even better place.

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Turn in there.

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This where you live?

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Don't joke.

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Why not?
I am the joker.

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I make death into a game for people
like you to get excited about.

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I watched you tonight.

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You'd love making it possible.

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You'd love pressing that button.

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What a thrill that would be.

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Knowing you have to die...

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to have the power
to take everyone else with you...

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the mob of them with their plans,
their little hopes...

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born to be murdered
and turning away from it...

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closing their eyes to it.

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You could be the one
to make it true, do it to them.

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But you're afraid...

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so you look for the thrill
someplace else.

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And who better
than a man who isn't afraid?

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I'm not your kind.

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- Airman?
- Sir?

135
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General Bogan should be on his way in.
Tell him I checked out the new computer.

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I'll be back on duty before he leaves
to check it out again with him.

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- Yes, sir.
- I'll be in my quarters if he wants me.

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- Yes, sir. Sir?
- Yes?

139
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A telephone message for you.

140
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They want you to call back,
said it was urgent.

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Line, please.

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00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,330
Hello.

143
00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,310
Yes, I got the message.
Why do you think I'm calling?

144
00:14:11,710 --> 00:14:13,810
Where did he get the money?

145
00:14:16,380 --> 00:14:18,480
No, I'll come myself.

146
00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,090
I'm going into town, Airman.
That's the address.

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I'll be there about a half an hour,
then I'm coming back to the base.

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Yes, sir.

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Better button up
before the general gets here.

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Yes, sir.

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General Bogan's office.
Airman Slote.

152
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No, sir, General.
He just left.

153
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Damn it, I need him.
Where did he sign out to?

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Conklin, you know where that is?

155
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Yes, sir.
It's on the way to the base.

156
00:15:02,100 --> 00:15:05,860
Get over there. I'll pick him up
myself, Airman. Thank you.

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00:15:10,940 --> 00:15:13,200
- This is the house, General.
- You sure this is it?

158
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There's not another street
by this name?

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I've in Omaha all my life. I know
this city like the back of my hand.

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Don't bother getting out.

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- Spending the money I send you on this!
- Give me that!

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You raise your hand
against my mother once more...

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Just a drop!
Who the hell are you?

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- Yeah?
- I'm General Bogan.

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00:16:01,860 --> 00:16:04,650
I'm looking for Colonel Cascio.
He gave this address.

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00:16:04,730 --> 00:16:07,420
- Sure, General.
- Let the gentleman in, Luke.

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00:16:07,490 --> 00:16:11,860
Honored to have you.
My son always speaks well of you.

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00:16:11,930 --> 00:16:14,090
Sorry to bother you, Colonel.

169
00:16:14,170 --> 00:16:16,660
We have some unexpected VIPs
we have to show around.

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Yes, sir.
I'll be right along.

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00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,270
Why don't you come in, General?

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00:16:26,350 --> 00:16:28,940
Thank you, I...

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I just take a drop now and then.

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The boy here gets a little excited.

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I'm ready, sir.

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Damn snot-nosed kid.

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00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,880
It's that Congressman Raskob,
who's been nosing around the bases.

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00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:15,990
Washington wants us
to put his mind at ease.

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00:17:16,060 --> 00:17:20,730
- He's on one of those committees.
- Yes, sir.

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00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:25,640
Gordon Knapp will also be there to look
at that equipment his company makes.

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He'll be on our side.

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00:17:27,740 --> 00:17:30,510
Anyone looks cross-eyed at his stuff,
he goes up like a rocket.

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00:17:30,580 --> 00:17:32,010
Yes, sir.

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00:17:35,820 --> 00:17:39,050
Time was when I'd say,
"goes up like a balloon."

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00:17:40,890 --> 00:17:43,690
- Times change.
- Yes, sir.

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00:17:50,030 --> 00:17:52,230
Ploesti was a rough one.

187
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We lost half our group.

188
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Regensburg was the worst one for us.

189
00:17:58,770 --> 00:18:02,710
I never flew the B-17, only B-24s.

190
00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,240
The 24 was a good airplane.

191
00:18:06,310 --> 00:18:10,220
You knew you were flying it, not the
other way around, like today's things.

192
00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,910
You still have to fly
the Vindicator, Grady.

193
00:18:12,990 --> 00:18:15,390
We're the last of the lot, Flynn.
Don't kid yourself about that.

194
00:18:15,460 --> 00:18:19,860
- The next airplanes won't need men.
- You'll be too old, anyway.

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00:18:19,930 --> 00:18:22,990
After us, the machines.
We're halfway there already.

196
00:18:24,260 --> 00:18:26,460
Look at those kids.

197
00:18:28,070 --> 00:18:30,730
Remember the crews
you had on the 24s?

198
00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,070
Jews, Italians, all kinds.

199
00:18:33,140 --> 00:18:35,400
You could tell them apart.
They were people.

200
00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,600
These kids... You open them up,
you'll find they run on transistors.

201
00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,240
- They're good kids.
- Sure.

202
00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,680
You know they're good at their jobs,
but you don't know them. How can you?

203
00:18:45,750 --> 00:18:48,410
We get a different crew
every time we go up.

204
00:18:48,490 --> 00:18:50,920
That's policy, Grady.

205
00:18:50,990 --> 00:18:53,320
It eliminates the personal factor.

206
00:18:53,390 --> 00:18:55,620
Everything is more complicated now.

207
00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:58,290
Reaction time is faster.

208
00:18:58,370 --> 00:19:02,030
You can't depend on people
the same way.

209
00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:04,800
Who do you depend on?

210
00:19:04,870 --> 00:19:07,770
All right, gentlemen.
The sky awaits.

211
00:19:10,940 --> 00:19:13,940
You know something, Billy?

212
00:19:14,010 --> 00:19:17,140
I like the personal factor.

213
00:19:47,750 --> 00:19:50,340
Those are Vindicator bombers
of the Strategic Air Command...

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00:19:50,420 --> 00:19:51,980
on routine patrol.

215
00:19:52,050 --> 00:19:54,990
Each one of those planes carries
four Bloodhound air-to-air missiles...

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00:19:55,060 --> 00:19:56,820
armed with nuclear warheads.

217
00:19:56,890 --> 00:19:59,650
Those are for use
against attacking enemy planes.

218
00:19:59,730 --> 00:20:03,060
In addition, each plane carries
two 20-megaton hydrogen bombs...

219
00:20:03,130 --> 00:20:05,460
designed to detonate
over enemy targets.

220
00:20:05,530 --> 00:20:08,830
At any given moment, night or day,
those airplanes are in the air...

221
00:20:08,900 --> 00:20:11,200
in case of any surprise attack
on our bases.

222
00:20:11,270 --> 00:20:13,210
You can see some
of the other groups...

223
00:20:13,270 --> 00:20:15,100
- Who controls them?
- We do.

224
00:20:15,180 --> 00:20:18,170
This room is the nerve center,
Mr. Raskob.

225
00:20:18,250 --> 00:20:22,180
These machines are constantly receiving
information from all over the world.

226
00:20:22,250 --> 00:20:24,050
And above it.

227
00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:27,380
Mr. Knapp's company did the electronic
work on the Argos satellite.

228
00:20:27,450 --> 00:20:31,480
Would you like to see what
it's photographing right now? Colonel.

229
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:35,860
This picture you're about to see
is being taken now...

230
00:20:35,930 --> 00:20:40,130
by a camera 300 miles in the sky
traveling 20,000 miles an hour.

231
00:20:45,110 --> 00:20:47,040
Can you give us tighter scale on this?

232
00:20:47,110 --> 00:20:48,540
Colonel?

233
00:21:05,090 --> 00:21:08,860
Those are the rocket sites
from 300 miles up.

234
00:21:08,930 --> 00:21:11,730
- I'm impressed.
- We'll get it sharper soon.

235
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,130
Be able to see the people,
not just the machines.

236
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,230
We'll show you
the hair on their head.

237
00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:20,900
- I suppose they're doing the same to us.
- You can see for yourself.

238
00:21:20,970 --> 00:21:23,570
Let's take a look at the Russian
submarines in the Pacific.

239
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,580
There's the western coast of the
United States, Hawaiian Islands...

240
00:21:26,650 --> 00:21:28,240
and those are Russian subs.

241
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,840
- That close?
- Nearest is 50 miles off San Francisco.

242
00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,360
International waters. Nothing
we can do except keep an eye on it.

243
00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:38,980
That's too damn close.
What's it doing there?

244
00:21:39,060 --> 00:21:41,580
Scanning us, the way we do them.

245
00:21:41,660 --> 00:21:43,600
Is it armed?

246
00:21:58,610 --> 00:22:02,600
We have instruments so good,
they can tell the difference...

247
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,910
between a whale breaking wind
and that sub blowing its tanks.

248
00:22:06,990 --> 00:22:11,450
No argument, General. I'm sure
we've got the best money can buy.

249
00:22:12,930 --> 00:22:16,120
- We're proud of what we do here.
- You ought to be, Colonel.

250
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,790
- The money is well spent.
- I don't doubt it for a minute.

251
00:22:19,870 --> 00:22:21,460
And you don't have to snow me.

252
00:22:21,530 --> 00:22:24,300
My committee doesn't deal
with appropriations...

253
00:22:24,370 --> 00:22:26,460
only with how
the appropriations are spent.

254
00:22:26,540 --> 00:22:30,480
You see it all around you.
Pretty impressive, isn't it?

255
00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:34,650
Truthfully, these machines
scare the hell out of me.

256
00:22:34,710 --> 00:22:36,650
I don't like the idea
that every time I take off my hat...

257
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,650
some thing up there
knows I'm losing my hair.

258
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,520
I want to be sure that thing
doesn't get any ideas of its own.

259
00:22:42,590 --> 00:22:46,030
I see what you mean, but that's
a chance you take with these systems.

260
00:22:46,090 --> 00:22:48,030
Who says we have to take that chance?

261
00:22:48,090 --> 00:22:51,430
Who voted who the power
to do it this particular way?

262
00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:53,520
I'm the only one around here
that got elected by anybody.

263
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,160
Nobody gave me that power.

264
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,830
It's in the nature of technology.

265
00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:58,500
Machines are developed
to meet situations.

266
00:22:58,570 --> 00:23:00,660
Then they take over,
they start creating situations.

267
00:23:00,740 --> 00:23:04,370
- Not necessarily.
- There's always the chance.

268
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,500
We have checks and counterchecks
on everything.

269
00:23:07,580 --> 00:23:09,280
Who checks the checker?

270
00:23:09,350 --> 00:23:12,280
Where's the end of the line?
Who's got the responsibility?

271
00:23:12,350 --> 00:23:14,150
- The president.
- No one.

272
00:23:14,220 --> 00:23:17,280
He can't know everything that's
going on. It's too complicated.

273
00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:20,350
If you want to know,
that's what really bothers me.

274
00:23:20,430 --> 00:23:23,920
The only thing everyone can agree on
is that no one's responsible.

275
00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:30,870
Is something wrong, General?

276
00:23:30,940 --> 00:23:34,700
UFO sighted
near Hudson's Bay, sir.

277
00:23:34,770 --> 00:23:37,370
What you're seeing, gentlemen,
is an unidentified flying object...

278
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,240
picked up by our radar.

279
00:23:39,310 --> 00:23:42,650
Until we get positive identification,
we regard it as hostile.

280
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,210
What do you do about it?

281
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,580
We've gone to Condition Blue,
which is our lowest form of readiness.

282
00:23:47,650 --> 00:23:50,050
At the same time, we've informed
those Vindicator bombers...

283
00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:52,920
that you saw in the air before.

284
00:23:52,990 --> 00:23:56,790
They will now start to fly
toward their fail-safe points.

285
00:23:56,860 --> 00:23:59,660
"Fail-safe"?

286
00:23:59,730 --> 00:24:02,260
Fixed points in the sky
on the perimeter of the Soviet Union...

287
00:24:02,340 --> 00:24:04,060
which are changed from day to day.

288
00:24:04,140 --> 00:24:06,070
The planes will fly to those points
and orbit...

289
00:24:06,140 --> 00:24:08,730
until they get
a positive order to go in.

290
00:24:08,810 --> 00:24:10,400
And if they don't get that order?

291
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,640
They return to their normal patrols.

292
00:24:12,710 --> 00:24:16,270
In short, we can't go to war
except on an express order.

293
00:24:16,350 --> 00:24:18,370
How do they get that order,
by radio?

294
00:24:18,450 --> 00:24:22,110
Yes, and through a box we call
the fail-safe box aboard each plane...

295
00:24:22,190 --> 00:24:25,350
which can only be activated
at the express order of the president.

296
00:24:25,430 --> 00:24:27,920
- He has to tell them?
- Not directly.

297
00:24:27,990 --> 00:24:29,760
His voice can be imitated.

298
00:24:29,830 --> 00:24:32,630
He just gives the order
and the rest is done electronically.

299
00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:35,690
No one can interfere
with the fail-safe box, Mr. Raskob.

300
00:24:38,810 --> 00:24:40,600
All those new blips you see
are fighter planes...

301
00:24:40,670 --> 00:24:43,370
going after
the unidentified object.

302
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,280
Colonel Cascio,
tight scale, please.

303
00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,910
You seem pretty cool about this,
General. Does it happen often?

304
00:24:51,990 --> 00:24:54,010
About six times a month.

305
00:24:54,090 --> 00:24:56,520
Probably an airliner off course.

306
00:24:56,590 --> 00:24:59,620
- And if it isn't?
- Then it's something else.

307
00:25:01,690 --> 00:25:06,460
That means it's at 30,000 feet,
going 525 miles an hour...

308
00:25:06,530 --> 00:25:09,020
on a compass heading of 196.

309
00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:10,660
Headed right for Detroit.

310
00:25:10,740 --> 00:25:12,800
Seven minutes to fail-safe.

311
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,640
Normal procedure, Mr. Raskob.

312
00:25:19,710 --> 00:25:22,480
We start an automatic countdown
at this point.

313
00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:27,480
It's very unlikely the bombers
will even reach their fail-safe points.

314
00:25:27,550 --> 00:25:30,490
It happens one time in twenty.

315
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,320
We usually identify the disturbance
well before that.

316
00:25:47,570 --> 00:25:49,770
Six minutes to fail-safe.

317
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,840
What have you got there, Blackie?
Another UFO?

318
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,510
For a dollar, a commercial plane
or a flock of birds?

319
00:26:00,590 --> 00:26:02,850
Plane. Off course.

320
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,860
You ought to give me odds.

321
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,330
I read your memo
on counterforce credibility.

322
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,700
I don't think Groeteschele
will discuss that today.

323
00:26:17,940 --> 00:26:19,670
You think I should lay off?

324
00:26:19,740 --> 00:26:21,670
Why open a can of peas?

325
00:26:21,740 --> 00:26:24,040
We've got to discuss it
one of these days, Stark.

326
00:26:24,110 --> 00:26:25,540
This whole policy of overkill...

327
00:26:25,610 --> 00:26:29,210
It makes no sense piling up bombs
when we already have a capacity...

328
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,650
Just not today.

329
00:26:33,890 --> 00:26:36,380
Good morning, Mr. Secretary.

330
00:26:36,460 --> 00:26:39,720
- Won't you sit over there?
- Thank you.

331
00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:44,890
- Good morning, Mr. Secretary.
- Good morning, gentlemen.

332
00:26:53,870 --> 00:26:56,570
- Everyone here, General Stark?
- Yes, sir.

333
00:27:01,810 --> 00:27:05,340
All right, Professor Groeteschele.

334
00:27:05,420 --> 00:27:09,980
I see we have an alert
to supplement our discussion.

335
00:27:10,060 --> 00:27:13,720
Unfortunately, we settled the question
of accidental war last week...

336
00:27:13,790 --> 00:27:18,090
so we can't make use of it today.

337
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,530
Today the subject is limited war.

338
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,590
It is not theoretical.

339
00:27:22,670 --> 00:27:24,600
On it depends
the kind of weapons we use...

340
00:27:24,670 --> 00:27:26,730
where we locate them,
how we use them.

341
00:27:26,810 --> 00:27:29,300
In short,
our entire military posture.

342
00:27:29,380 --> 00:27:31,970
Is limited war possible?

343
00:27:32,050 --> 00:27:34,810
Can we confine the exchange
of nuclear weapons...

344
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,440
to military targets alone...

345
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,280
or must war lead inevitably
to the destruction of cities?

346
00:27:40,350 --> 00:27:42,820
- It must.
- Why?

347
00:27:42,890 --> 00:27:47,520
The object of war is to inflict
maximum damage on the enemy...

348
00:27:47,590 --> 00:27:49,960
destroy his ability to resist.

349
00:27:50,030 --> 00:27:53,290
In the last war, both sides
could have used bacterial warfare.

350
00:27:53,370 --> 00:27:56,560
- They didn't.
- It wouldn't have been decisive.

351
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,230
Can you be sure?

352
00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:01,800
Maybe people still couldn't get used
to the idea of killing civilians.

353
00:28:01,870 --> 00:28:06,610
Take that up with the civilians
of London, Hamburg, Dresden or Tokyo...

354
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,740
killed by the thousands
in bombing raids.

355
00:28:09,820 --> 00:28:11,550
I omit Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

356
00:28:11,620 --> 00:28:14,480
since those actions belong
more properly to World War III...

357
00:28:14,550 --> 00:28:16,150
than World War II.

358
00:28:16,220 --> 00:28:19,660
I still don't see
how we could restrict a war.

359
00:28:19,730 --> 00:28:22,460
We could come to a mutual agreement
with the Russians...

360
00:28:22,530 --> 00:28:25,830
to strike only at missile bases.

361
00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:28,490
What if the missile bases
were near the cities?

362
00:28:28,570 --> 00:28:30,830
They would have an incentive
to move them elsewhere.

363
00:28:30,900 --> 00:28:34,200
They might take such an offer
as a sign of weakness on our part.

364
00:28:34,270 --> 00:28:38,000
- It could be worth a try.
- They have as much to lose as we have.

365
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,410
We're talking
about the wrong subject.

366
00:28:41,710 --> 00:28:43,550
We've got to stop war,
not limit it.

367
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,220
That is not up to us, General Black.

368
00:28:48,290 --> 00:28:50,020
We're the ones
who know most about it.

369
00:28:50,090 --> 00:28:53,350
You're a soldier, Blackie.
You carry out policy.

370
00:28:53,430 --> 00:28:56,860
- You don't make it.
- Don't kid yourself, Stark.

371
00:28:56,930 --> 00:28:59,830
The way we say a war can be fought
is making policy.

372
00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:03,560
If we say we can fight
a limited war with nuclear weapons...

373
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,070
we let everyone off the hook.

374
00:29:05,140 --> 00:29:06,800
It's what they want to hear.

375
00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:10,570
We can just keep doing what we're doing,
and nobody really gets hurt.

376
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,910
But you can't fight a limited war,
and you know it.

377
00:29:12,980 --> 00:29:14,880
I'm not so sure.

378
00:29:14,950 --> 00:29:17,710
There's no such thing
as a limited war anymore.

379
00:29:17,780 --> 00:29:20,510
Not with hydrogen bombs.

380
00:29:20,590 --> 00:29:23,780
Once those bombs start to drop,
you won't be able to limit a thing.

381
00:29:25,020 --> 00:29:29,480
Are you advocating disarmament?

382
00:29:32,670 --> 00:29:34,430
I don't know.

383
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:37,900
It's the logic of your position.

384
00:29:37,970 --> 00:29:41,100
Peculiar reversal.
The press would be interested.

385
00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:45,580
The military man who is the dove,
and the civilian who is the hawk.

386
00:29:47,980 --> 00:29:50,610
We're going too fast.

387
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,170
Things are getting out of hand.

388
00:29:52,250 --> 00:29:54,190
Can you be more specific, General?

389
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,220
We're all trying
to make war more efficient.

390
00:29:57,290 --> 00:30:00,190
- That's our job.
- And we're succeeding.

391
00:30:00,260 --> 00:30:03,700
We now have the capacity to blow up
the whole world several times over.

392
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,250
Which does not mean
we must do it.

393
00:30:06,330 --> 00:30:10,270
We won't be able to stop from doing it.
That's the logic of your position.

394
00:30:11,670 --> 00:30:13,760
We're setting up a war machine
that acts faster...

395
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,370
than the ability of men
to control it.

396
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,470
We're putting men into situations
that are too tough for men to handle.

397
00:30:19,550 --> 00:30:21,270
Then we must toughen the men.

398
00:30:21,350 --> 00:30:24,610
Suppose they launch
a first strike against us?

399
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,280
Then we retaliate,
and we're all finished.

400
00:30:28,350 --> 00:30:32,050
Would you prefer
that only we were finished?

401
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,460
We have to prepare.

402
00:30:35,530 --> 00:30:40,560
We're preparing.
We've got to slow down.

403
00:30:40,630 --> 00:30:43,800
I disagree.
We have got to speed up.

404
00:30:43,870 --> 00:30:46,460
Naturally,
that means taking risks...

405
00:30:46,540 --> 00:30:50,100
but our intention is always
to minimize those risks.

406
00:30:50,180 --> 00:30:53,170
Of course, we can only control
our own actions.

407
00:30:53,250 --> 00:30:58,050
Our concept of limited war is based
on an equal rationality by the Russians.

408
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,140
It also presupposes there will be
no accidents on either side.

409
00:31:02,220 --> 00:31:06,620
But suppose
that unidentified flying object...

410
00:31:06,690 --> 00:31:10,530
was one of their 50-megaton missiles
that had gotten loose by mistake.

411
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,620
What could be done? How could they
prove it was really an accident?

412
00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:15,830
Would it make any difference
if they could?

413
00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:20,170
Even if we believe them, should we
still think of limiting our response...

414
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,940
or should we hit them back
with everything we have?

415
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,410
It's gone, General.
What happened to it?

416
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,180
Colonel Cascio,
let's go to Condition Yellow.

417
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,180
It's dropped below the level
in which our radar can pick it up.

418
00:31:35,250 --> 00:31:36,850
You went to the next state
of readiness.

419
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,020
That's standard operating procedure.

420
00:31:39,090 --> 00:31:40,720
It could be a commercial plane
about to crash.

421
00:31:40,790 --> 00:31:43,690
Or an enemy plane
taking evasive action.

422
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,060
Naturally, we prepare for the worst.

423
00:31:46,130 --> 00:31:48,070
Two minutes to fail-safe.

424
00:31:52,940 --> 00:31:55,370
What are those planes
following the bomber, General?

425
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,640
Fighter support.
Part of Condition Yellow.

426
00:31:57,710 --> 00:32:01,080
From now on, they'll follow
the bombers as far as they go.

427
00:32:01,150 --> 00:32:04,380
- What comes after Condition Yellow?
- Green.

428
00:32:04,450 --> 00:32:06,210
- And then?
- Red.

429
00:32:06,290 --> 00:32:08,380
But we've never gone to red yet.

430
00:32:08,450 --> 00:32:10,550
Red means war, doesn't it?

431
00:32:27,970 --> 00:32:30,740
- Not an air breather?
- What does that mean?

432
00:32:30,810 --> 00:32:33,280
Jet planes suck air
through their engines.

433
00:32:33,350 --> 00:32:35,840
Our warning system can pick up
the turbulence this creates.

434
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,940
If a commercial plane lost power,
no turbulence would be created.

435
00:32:39,020 --> 00:32:41,250
It could be a rocket.

436
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:42,750
Off course?

437
00:32:43,860 --> 00:32:45,480
Maybe on.

438
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,360
One minute to fail-safe.

439
00:32:48,430 --> 00:32:51,920
It could be a Russian rocket coming in
low where our radar can't pick it up.

440
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,930
- Could it be that?
- It could be anything.

441
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,090
- How do you find out?
- Our fighters are tracking it.

442
00:32:57,170 --> 00:32:59,070
Can't wait too long.

443
00:32:59,140 --> 00:33:03,730
13, 12, 11, 10, 9...

444
00:33:03,810 --> 00:33:07,750
8, 7, 6, 5, 4...

445
00:33:07,810 --> 00:33:10,940
3, 2, 1.

446
00:33:11,020 --> 00:33:13,450
All groups at fail-safe point.

447
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,040
Right on the dot.
That's flying.

448
00:33:17,790 --> 00:33:19,690
- Yes, sir?
- Go to Condition Green.

449
00:33:26,970 --> 00:33:30,630
Tell the planes to keep orbiting
until we positively identify the UFO.

450
00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:33,300
- That's their orders.
- Tell them again.

451
00:33:33,370 --> 00:33:36,310
- You'll have to leave now.
- Sorry.

452
00:33:36,380 --> 00:33:40,140
- That is an order.
- You've got the wrong customer.

453
00:33:40,210 --> 00:33:42,810
The way I see, we could be at war
in just about two minutes.

454
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,480
You can't get me back to my family,
so I'm staying here to see what happens.

455
00:33:45,550 --> 00:33:47,140
There's no place for you here.

456
00:33:47,220 --> 00:33:49,650
If those bombs go off,
there's no place for me anywhere.

457
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,420
You want me out of here,
you better call the military police.

458
00:33:52,490 --> 00:33:55,320
- I think it's coming up again.
- We can't wait any longer, sir.

459
00:33:55,390 --> 00:33:57,330
Give me a tight scale.

460
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,870
That's it, gentlemen.

461
00:34:43,940 --> 00:34:45,570
Sorry we alarmed you.

462
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,200
Contact all the planes and have them
resume their normal patrols.

463
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,270
Yes, sir.

464
00:34:57,460 --> 00:34:59,190
Colonel Grady?

465
00:34:59,260 --> 00:35:01,390
What is it, Thomas?

466
00:35:01,460 --> 00:35:05,420
What's the longest you ever stayed
at these fail-safe points?

467
00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:08,230
The longest I ever stayed
was three minutes...

468
00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:11,700
but it seemed like three years.

469
00:35:11,770 --> 00:35:14,600
- This your first time?
- Yes, sir.

470
00:35:14,670 --> 00:35:17,070
- Nervous?
- No, sir.

471
00:35:17,140 --> 00:35:19,410
It's only natural.

472
00:35:20,980 --> 00:35:24,940
I was just calculating fuel, sir.

473
00:35:27,190 --> 00:35:30,090
How is the group
holding formation, Sullivan?

474
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:31,920
They're right in orbit, sir.

475
00:35:31,990 --> 00:35:35,090
Even number six is tucked in.

476
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,250
Old Flynn.

477
00:35:37,330 --> 00:35:39,920
Half man, half bird.

478
00:35:41,770 --> 00:35:45,760
Thank you very much, General.
I must say, it was quite...

479
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,430
- What's that, Colonel?
- Checking, sir.

480
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:10,960
It's okay here.

481
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,130
Send in a K-13.

482
00:36:17,540 --> 00:36:21,130
Something blew in the fault indicator.
We're replacing the whole unit.

483
00:36:21,210 --> 00:36:23,870
The fault indicator
is our master control.

484
00:36:23,940 --> 00:36:27,170
It tells us if something goes wrong
in any of these other components.

485
00:36:27,250 --> 00:36:30,310
- Did something go wrong?
- No sign of it.

486
00:36:30,380 --> 00:36:32,850
We'll know as soon
as they replace the unit.

487
00:36:50,370 --> 00:36:52,840
Sir, the fail-safe box.

488
00:37:01,410 --> 00:37:03,680
There must be some mistake.

489
00:37:03,750 --> 00:37:05,510
Check Omaha.

490
00:37:12,090 --> 00:37:13,650
Can't get through, Colonel.
Interference.

491
00:37:13,730 --> 00:37:15,790
What kind of interference?

492
00:37:15,860 --> 00:37:17,990
I don't know, sir.
It's a kind I never heard before.

493
00:37:18,060 --> 00:37:20,930
Try another band.
Try all of them.

494
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,070
Can't get through.

495
00:37:28,470 --> 00:37:30,410
They must be trying to keep us
from getting our go signal.

496
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,710
They're too late for that.

497
00:37:32,780 --> 00:37:36,080
Request permission to authenticate
on secondary channel.

498
00:37:36,150 --> 00:37:37,780
Permission granted.

499
00:37:52,900 --> 00:37:56,270
Order confirmed.
Request permission to verify, sir.

500
00:37:58,140 --> 00:37:59,800
Permission granted.

501
00:38:36,010 --> 00:38:40,040
Code sequence correct for today, sir.
Signal is go.

502
00:38:41,850 --> 00:38:45,540
We will now both open
our operational orders.

503
00:39:18,220 --> 00:39:21,150
Ready for approach
and penetration orders, sir.

504
00:39:25,820 --> 00:39:28,820
You say these alerts happen
half a dozen times a month?

505
00:39:28,890 --> 00:39:31,160
About that.
Not usually so dramatic.

506
00:39:31,230 --> 00:39:33,320
We rarely get
to the fail-safe point.

507
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:34,990
I'd be a nervous wreck.

508
00:39:35,070 --> 00:39:37,660
So would I if I had
to make a speech in Congress.

509
00:39:39,740 --> 00:39:44,570
That blip up there at ten o'clock.
It's headed into Russia.

510
00:39:50,550 --> 00:39:53,020
That is why some people advocate
a return to manned bombers...

511
00:39:53,090 --> 00:39:55,850
for a first-rate retaliation,
rather than missiles.

512
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,190
They are slower and give more time
for evaluation and analysis.

513
00:40:00,260 --> 00:40:02,190
The rockets have the defects
of their virtues.

514
00:40:02,260 --> 00:40:05,590
They are too quick.
They allow too little time for thought.

515
00:40:05,660 --> 00:40:07,860
I find this point of view
old-fashioned.

516
00:40:07,930 --> 00:40:11,700
By the very nature
of modern warfare, the...

517
00:40:13,070 --> 00:40:15,700
Put that on polar projection.

518
00:40:32,290 --> 00:40:35,490
- Yes, sir?
- Get me the president.

519
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,390
I'm Buck, the translator.
They sent for me.

520
00:40:38,460 --> 00:40:40,400
May I see your identification?

521
00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:47,070
It says you have a small scar
on your left wrist. May I see it?

522
00:40:47,140 --> 00:40:49,900
Yeah.
Dog bit me when I was a kid.

523
00:40:49,980 --> 00:40:51,410
Yes, sir.

524
00:41:02,820 --> 00:41:05,590
Hello, Buck.
How's your Russian today?

525
00:41:05,660 --> 00:41:08,850
Fine, sir. I guess.

526
00:41:08,930 --> 00:41:11,920
Good. We may need it.

527
00:41:14,270 --> 00:41:16,600
Hang on, Jennie.
It's a long way down.

528
00:41:25,740 --> 00:41:29,340
Tell Joe nothing leaks
to the newspapers yet.

529
00:41:29,410 --> 00:41:32,040
Call the vice president and tell him
what's up. He'll know what to do.

530
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,550
On second thought,
we better tell the press something.

531
00:41:37,620 --> 00:41:40,290
Have Joe tell them it's urgent,
but not a bone-breaker so far.

532
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,290
And off the record, no leaks.

533
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,420
Any leaks on this, the guy
and his paper are dead now and forever.

534
00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:47,120
I'll tell Joe in just those words.

535
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,640
Who's at the Pentagon briefing today?
I want them in on this.

536
00:41:50,700 --> 00:41:54,000
Secretary of Defense.
Chiefs of Staff.

537
00:41:54,070 --> 00:41:56,800
That Professor Groeteschele
they like so much is giving the lecture.

538
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,140
- Is Blackie there?
- There's a General Black.

539
00:41:59,210 --> 00:42:02,150
That's Blackie. I'm glad he's there.
We went to college together.

540
00:42:02,210 --> 00:42:04,310
He's got a brain
and says what he thinks.

541
00:42:04,380 --> 00:42:05,820
That's all for now.
Get to work.

542
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,150
Have them turn up the air-conditioning.
It's hot as hell down here.

543
00:42:10,390 --> 00:42:13,260
We're far enough down.
Maybe it is hell.

544
00:42:17,260 --> 00:42:20,130
- You know what's happened?
- No, sir.

545
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,500
One of our Vindicator groups
got a wrong signal.

546
00:42:22,570 --> 00:42:25,830
They took off to bomb Moscow.
We've got to stop it.

547
00:42:26,910 --> 00:42:29,200
Easier said than done.

548
00:42:29,270 --> 00:42:34,300
But we've got a little time;
not much, but a little, so relax.

549
00:42:34,380 --> 00:42:36,180
Easier said than done, sir.

550
00:42:37,250 --> 00:42:38,680
If things get really hot...

551
00:42:38,750 --> 00:42:40,680
I might have to use
the direct phone to the Kremlin.

552
00:42:40,750 --> 00:42:44,620
That's where you'll come in.
Let's hope we don't get that far.

553
00:42:44,690 --> 00:42:46,890
I hope not, sir.

554
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,990
- General Bogan from Omaha, sir.
- Put him on.

555
00:42:51,060 --> 00:42:54,520
Group Six is now about 200 miles
past fail-safe, Mr. President.

556
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,530
We still can't make contact.

557
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,700
- Do you know what went wrong?
- No, sir, we do not.

558
00:42:59,770 --> 00:43:02,710
Why can't you raise them by radio?

559
00:43:02,770 --> 00:43:04,330
We don't know for sure, sir.

560
00:43:04,410 --> 00:43:07,400
We've tried all frequencies.
We just can't make contact.

561
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,140
- Why?
- I don’t know.

562
00:43:09,210 --> 00:43:11,550
We had a flash on the board
just before it happened...

563
00:43:11,620 --> 00:43:14,210
and the fault indicator
blew out at the same time.

564
00:43:14,290 --> 00:43:17,020
The Russians may be jamming
their reception with some new device...

565
00:43:17,090 --> 00:43:18,560
we know nothing about.

566
00:43:18,620 --> 00:43:20,220
Why would they do that?
Is it customary?

567
00:43:20,290 --> 00:43:22,090
No, sir, but it's possible.

568
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,390
In other words, it's possible
the fail-safe mechanism...

569
00:43:25,460 --> 00:43:26,900
might be giving them a go signal...

570
00:43:26,970 --> 00:43:30,990
at the same time they can't reach you
for positive confirmation.

571
00:43:31,070 --> 00:43:33,160
It's possible.
It's not probable, but...

572
00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:36,940
- Is it possible?
- Yes, sir.

573
00:43:37,010 --> 00:43:39,910
All right.
If we regain radio contact...

574
00:43:39,980 --> 00:43:42,710
will the bombers respond
to an order to return?

575
00:43:42,780 --> 00:43:44,580
If we can reach them
within the next five minutes.

576
00:43:44,650 --> 00:43:48,450
After that, their orders are
to disregard any verbal command.

577
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,580
Even if I talk to them?

578
00:43:50,660 --> 00:43:52,750
Your voice can be imitated
by the enemy, sir.

579
00:43:52,820 --> 00:43:54,590
Our men have been drilled in that.

580
00:43:54,660 --> 00:43:56,250
Once they're
beyond a certain point...

581
00:43:56,330 --> 00:43:58,730
they're not to trust
any verbal transmission.

582
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,030
What's our next step then, General,
if we follow standard procedure?

583
00:44:03,170 --> 00:44:05,100
We already have
fighter planes in the air.

584
00:44:05,170 --> 00:44:07,760
The next step would be to order
the fighters after the bombers...

585
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,870
to raise them visually
and divert them from their course.

586
00:44:10,940 --> 00:44:13,270
What if the bombers don't respond?

587
00:44:13,350 --> 00:44:16,680
The fighters would be ordered
to shoot them down.

588
00:44:22,020 --> 00:44:23,450
Who gives that order?

589
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,010
You do, sir.

590
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,190
Thank you, General.
I'll be back to you.

591
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,730
Get me Mr. Swenson
in the Pentagon.

592
00:44:58,790 --> 00:45:00,350
Swenson here.

593
00:45:00,430 --> 00:45:02,480
Mr. Secretary,
I have a decision to make.

594
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,150
It's my decision,
and I'll make it...

595
00:45:04,230 --> 00:45:07,160
but I want the advice of you
and your people, and I need it fast.

596
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,340
The president says he may have
to order our fighters...

597
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,170
to shoot down Group Six.

598
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:17,670
He wants our opinion.

599
00:45:17,740 --> 00:45:21,680
I oppose it, sir,
on the grounds that it's premature.

600
00:45:21,750 --> 00:45:24,680
Our planes have not yet
reached Soviet territory.

601
00:45:24,750 --> 00:45:26,720
They're still hundreds
of miles away.

602
00:45:26,790 --> 00:45:29,190
We got to do it
right now before it's too late.

603
00:45:29,250 --> 00:45:31,350
It might be too late anyway.

604
00:45:31,420 --> 00:45:34,360
Those fighters swung away from
the bombers when they got the all clear.

605
00:45:34,430 --> 00:45:36,490
They've been flying
in the opposite direction.

606
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,690
- They're faster than the Vindicators.
- Not that much faster.

607
00:45:39,770 --> 00:45:43,290
- I'm not sure they can catch up in time.
- They can go to afterburners.

608
00:45:43,370 --> 00:45:46,030
- That will increase their speed.
- And use up their fuel.

609
00:45:46,100 --> 00:45:48,700
They'll never be able to get back.
They'll go down in the ocean.

610
00:45:48,770 --> 00:45:52,040
- We've got to try it.
- Suppose they do catch up?

611
00:45:52,110 --> 00:45:54,700
Why do they have to attack?
Can't they signal?

612
00:45:54,780 --> 00:45:57,080
Our men have been trained
to expect anything from the enemy...

613
00:45:57,150 --> 00:46:00,050
even sending up his own fighter planes
disguised as ours.

614
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:01,880
They're good men.
We've seen to that.

615
00:46:01,950 --> 00:46:04,890
If their orders are attack, the only way
to stop them is to shoot them down.

616
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,550
We have no alternative.

617
00:46:07,630 --> 00:46:09,390
This minute the Russians
are watching their boards...

618
00:46:09,460 --> 00:46:11,400
trying to figure out
what we're up to.

619
00:46:11,460 --> 00:46:15,730
If we can't convince them it's an
accident that we're trying to correct...

620
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,500
we're going to have a situation
that nobody bargained for...

621
00:46:19,570 --> 00:46:21,560
and only a lunatic wants.

622
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,070
Mr. President...

623
00:46:26,140 --> 00:46:28,770
it is our opinion that the fighters
should be ordered in.

624
00:46:28,850 --> 00:46:30,780
Thank you.

625
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,080
General Bogan, please.

626
00:46:48,530 --> 00:46:49,970
Yes, Mr. President?

627
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,600
The fighters are to overtake
the Vindicators...

628
00:46:53,670 --> 00:46:56,110
and, if necessary,
shoot them down.

629
00:46:57,510 --> 00:47:00,410
Sir, it will be necessary.

630
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,610
I know that, General.
Order them in.

631
00:47:12,990 --> 00:47:16,120
Colonel, order the fighters
to attack Group Six.

632
00:47:17,860 --> 00:47:21,960
They don't have a prayer
of catching them, sir.

633
00:47:22,030 --> 00:47:24,800
That is an order.

634
00:47:24,870 --> 00:47:27,960
But that's the Arctic Ocean
they'll go down in, General.

635
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,170
They'll freeze to death
before they get their chutes off.

636
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,970
Colonel, get on the horn
and give that order.

637
00:47:35,050 --> 00:47:37,810
Every second you wait
takes them farther away.

638
00:47:39,950 --> 00:47:41,980
We're killing them.
They haven't got a chance.

639
00:47:43,050 --> 00:47:44,520
This is Fighter Direction.

640
00:47:44,590 --> 00:47:47,420
We are in voice communication
with Tangle-Abel-One.

641
00:47:47,490 --> 00:47:50,830
You can talk to them on Channel 7,
single side band.

642
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,660
Do I tell them in code
or in the clear?

643
00:47:56,740 --> 00:47:58,500
In the clear.

644
00:47:59,870 --> 00:48:02,700
Tangle-Abel-One, this is
Colonel Cascio at Ultimate One.

645
00:48:02,770 --> 00:48:05,500
This is Tangle-Abel-One.
I read you five-by-five.

646
00:48:05,580 --> 00:48:07,510
Group Six has flown through
the fail-safe point...

647
00:48:07,580 --> 00:48:09,640
and is on an attack course
towards Moscow.

648
00:48:09,710 --> 00:48:12,080
It is a mistake.

649
00:48:12,150 --> 00:48:15,210
Go to afterburners and overtake
and attack Group Six.

650
00:48:17,260 --> 00:48:18,690
Roger.

651
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,520
Go to afterburners and overtake
and attack Group Six.

652
00:48:24,100 --> 00:48:26,030
Did you all hear that order?

653
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,060
Overtake the Vindicators?
Who are they kidding?

654
00:48:31,140 --> 00:48:34,900
All we got is a 50-mile-an-hour edge.
They're half way to Moscow already.

655
00:48:34,970 --> 00:48:37,070
You heard the man.
We go to afterburners.

656
00:48:37,140 --> 00:48:40,440
And use spit
to run this airplane?

657
00:48:40,510 --> 00:48:44,210
By the time we run out of gas,
they'll only be 1,000 miles away.

658
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,050
- Man, that's organization.
- Cut the chatter.

659
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,420
We're wasting time.
On the mark, go to afterburners.

660
00:48:50,490 --> 00:48:54,930
Five, four, three, two, one, mark.

661
00:49:02,630 --> 00:49:05,230
Shall I alert Air-Sea Rescue, sir?

662
00:49:08,810 --> 00:49:14,340
No point. Bring up the fighters
on the board in tight scale.

663
00:49:14,410 --> 00:49:15,850
Yes, sir.

664
00:49:23,660 --> 00:49:25,590
Beautiful.

665
00:49:31,500 --> 00:49:33,430
Fighters on their way, sir.

666
00:49:36,030 --> 00:49:37,470
Thank you.

667
00:49:40,340 --> 00:49:43,770
Buck, let's hope this all blows over
in the next few minutes.

668
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,940
But if it doesn't,
we'll get to know each other very well.

669
00:49:48,010 --> 00:49:52,110
Listen to every conversation I have,
try to get to know how I think.

670
00:49:52,180 --> 00:49:54,950
- It might come in handy.
- Yes, sir.

671
00:49:58,390 --> 00:50:01,950
- How did General Bogan sound to you?
- Sir?

672
00:50:02,030 --> 00:50:06,520
Did he sound worried?
Confident? Scared?

673
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,000
Not scared.

674
00:50:09,070 --> 00:50:10,630
A little worried, I guess.

675
00:50:10,700 --> 00:50:12,290
Bogan's an old-time flier...

676
00:50:12,370 --> 00:50:14,130
but he's not afraid
of all this new equipment.

677
00:50:14,210 --> 00:50:16,970
If he's worried, I'm worried.

678
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,980
Do you know Mr. Swenson,
the secretary of defense?

679
00:50:20,050 --> 00:50:21,950
I've read about him, sir.

680
00:50:22,010 --> 00:50:24,980
You won't be able to tell much
from his voice. He's hard as a rock.

681
00:50:25,050 --> 00:50:30,320
But we listen to him, Buck.
If he gives advice, we take it.

682
00:50:30,390 --> 00:50:31,820
Yes, sir.

683
00:50:37,930 --> 00:50:39,830
Put the war conference room
at the Pentagon...

684
00:50:39,900 --> 00:50:42,490
and General Bogan in Omaha
on a conference line with me.

685
00:50:42,570 --> 00:50:44,000
Yes, sir.

686
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:47,830
Ready, sir.

687
00:50:47,910 --> 00:50:50,310
- Mr. Swenson?
- Yes, Mr. President.

688
00:50:50,380 --> 00:50:54,840
If our fighters have to shoot down
the Vindicators, the worst is over.

689
00:50:54,910 --> 00:50:57,280
For us, anyway.

690
00:50:57,350 --> 00:51:00,680
I want your people now to consider
what we do if we can't shoot them down.

691
00:51:00,750 --> 00:51:04,150
I'm putting you on the intercom
so you can be heard here and in Omaha.

692
00:51:04,220 --> 00:51:07,680
General Bogan has Mr. Knapp
of Amalgamated Electronics...

693
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,020
and Congressman Raskob with him.

694
00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:14,030
They have my permission to listen in
and say anything they want.

695
00:51:14,100 --> 00:51:16,430
Right, sir.

696
00:51:18,340 --> 00:51:23,040
Gentlemen, we've got four questions
to answer and not a lot of time.

697
00:51:23,110 --> 00:51:26,570
First: What happened?
Second: What do we do about it?

698
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,580
Third: What are the Russians
going to think about all this?

699
00:51:28,650 --> 00:51:31,640
And fourth:
What are they going to do about it?

700
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:35,050
Please keep the discussion
to those points.

701
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,820
Mechanical failure.

702
00:51:37,890 --> 00:51:40,550
- That's what happened.
- A double mechanical failure?

703
00:51:40,630 --> 00:51:43,890
- Do you know the odds against that?
- Maybe someone went berserk.

704
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:48,060
It doesn't matter.
Something failed: A man, a machine.

705
00:51:48,130 --> 00:51:50,400
It was bound to happen,
and it did.

706
00:51:50,470 --> 00:51:54,670
Maybe we'll never know why or what.
It doesn't matter now.

707
00:51:54,740 --> 00:51:56,670
- Mr. Secretary.
- Yes, General Bogan.

708
00:51:56,740 --> 00:51:59,510
Mr. Knapp here knows as much
about electronic gear as anyone.

709
00:51:59,580 --> 00:52:00,840
He’d like to say something.

710
00:52:00,910 --> 00:52:04,440
The more complex
an electronic system gets...

711
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,680
the more accident-prone it is.

712
00:52:06,750 --> 00:52:09,240
- Sooner or later, it breaks down.
- What breaks down?

713
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,880
A transistor blows.
A condenser burns out.

714
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,760
Sometimes they just get tired,
like people.

715
00:52:15,830 --> 00:52:18,800
Mr. Knapp overlooks one factor.

716
00:52:18,860 --> 00:52:20,960
The machines are supervised
by humans.

717
00:52:21,030 --> 00:52:25,590
Even if the machine fails, the human
can always correct the mistake.

718
00:52:25,670 --> 00:52:27,260
I wish you were right.

719
00:52:27,340 --> 00:52:30,770
The fact is,
the machines work so fast...

720
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,610
they are so intricate...

721
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,770
the mistakes they make
are so subtle...

722
00:52:35,850 --> 00:52:37,940
that very often,
a human being just can't know...

723
00:52:38,020 --> 00:52:40,250
whether a machine is lying
or telling the truth.

724
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:44,280
Maybe this time
there wasn't any failure.

725
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,620
Maybe the Russians have masked
the real position of Group Six.

726
00:52:47,690 --> 00:52:50,420
Maybe Group Six is flying back
to the States this minute.

727
00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:52,620
Then what's on the board?
Northern lights?

728
00:52:52,700 --> 00:52:56,060
Maybe a group of Soviet planes,
up there to convince us...

729
00:52:56,130 --> 00:52:57,800
we've accidentally launched
a bomber group.

730
00:52:57,870 --> 00:53:00,570
- For what purpose?
- As an excuse to retaliate.

731
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:02,630
If they wanted to do that,
they wouldn't need an excuse.

732
00:53:02,710 --> 00:53:05,510
- They'd simply attack.
- This way, we commit our fighters...

733
00:53:05,580 --> 00:53:08,980
our first line of defense,
and made us kill our own men.

734
00:53:09,050 --> 00:53:11,140
I disagree with that analysis!

735
00:53:11,220 --> 00:53:14,910
We have to assume it is our accident
and not their plan.

736
00:53:14,990 --> 00:53:17,650
I agree, General.
Yes, Saunders?

737
00:53:17,720 --> 00:53:20,660
A report that the Russians
have seven bomber groups in the air.

738
00:53:20,730 --> 00:53:23,130
- Is that unusual?
- That's normal for them.

739
00:53:23,190 --> 00:53:25,820
- About like us.
- What kind of course are they on?

740
00:53:25,900 --> 00:53:29,860
Normal patrol patterns
inside their own borders.

741
00:53:29,930 --> 00:53:32,930
They have an abnormally large number
of fighters in the air, sir.

742
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:34,490
Almost half their fighter strength.

743
00:53:34,570 --> 00:53:37,940
They're having the same problem
with Group Six that we had with the UFO.

744
00:53:38,010 --> 00:53:41,000
They don't know what it is,
why it's there or who it belongs to.

745
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,670
My guess is that
they know all about Group Six.

746
00:53:43,750 --> 00:53:46,180
They saw it fly to the fail-safe point.
They've seen that happen before.

747
00:53:46,250 --> 00:53:47,950
They know the procedure.

748
00:53:48,020 --> 00:53:50,510
- So far, no sweat.
- And when they saw it fly past...

749
00:53:50,590 --> 00:53:53,020
They sent up their fighter planes
just in case.

750
00:53:53,090 --> 00:53:55,790
I don't think they'll take any action
unless their border is crossed.

751
00:53:55,860 --> 00:53:58,090
Agreed.

752
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,430
That puts it up to the fighters.

753
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,600
In my opinion,
they will take no action at all.

754
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,500
They won't just sit there.

755
00:54:09,570 --> 00:54:12,870
I think if our bombers get through,
the Russians will surrender.

756
00:54:12,940 --> 00:54:15,410
Who is the professor, Mr. Secretary?
What's he doing there?

757
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,970
Professor Groeteschele is a civilian
advisor to the Pentagon, General.

758
00:54:19,050 --> 00:54:22,040
Will you explain your statement,
Professor?

759
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,880
The Russian aim is
to dominate the world.

760
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,050
They think that Communism
must succeed eventually...

761
00:54:27,130 --> 00:54:29,530
if the Soviet Union is left
reasonably intact.

762
00:54:29,590 --> 00:54:32,430
They know that a war would leave
the Soviet Union utterly destroyed.

763
00:54:32,500 --> 00:54:33,930
Therefore, they would surrender.

764
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,830
But suppose they feel
they can knock us off first?

765
00:54:36,900 --> 00:54:39,060
They know we might have
a doomsday system:

766
00:54:39,140 --> 00:54:42,700
Missiles that will go into action days,
even weeks, after a war is over...

767
00:54:42,770 --> 00:54:46,400
and destroy an enemy even after
that enemy has already destroyed us.

768
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,740
Maybe they think even capitalists
aren't that insane...

769
00:54:48,810 --> 00:54:51,410
to want to kill after they
themselves have been killed.

770
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,950
These are Marist fanatics,
not normal people.

771
00:54:54,020 --> 00:54:56,750
They do not reason the way
you reason, General Black.

772
00:54:56,820 --> 00:55:00,260
They're not motivated by human emotion
such as rage and pity.

773
00:55:00,330 --> 00:55:01,920
They are calculating machines.

774
00:55:01,990 --> 00:55:04,590
They will look at the balance sheet,
and they will see they cannot win.

775
00:55:04,660 --> 00:55:06,190
Then you suggest doing what?

776
00:55:08,500 --> 00:55:11,560
- Nothing.
- Nothing?

777
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,100
The Russians will surrender...

778
00:55:13,170 --> 00:55:15,640
and the threat of Communism
will be over forever.

779
00:55:15,710 --> 00:55:18,200
That's a lot of hogwash.
Don't kid yourself.

780
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,270
There will be Russian generals
who would react just as I would:

781
00:55:20,350 --> 00:55:22,280
The best defense
is a good offense.

782
00:55:22,350 --> 00:55:26,040
They see trouble coming up, they'll
attack and won't care what Mar said.

783
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,450
Mr. Secretary,
I am convinced...

784
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:32,750
when the Russians know bombs will fall
on Moscow, they will surrender.

785
00:55:32,820 --> 00:55:36,950
They know that whatever they do then,
they cannot escape destruction.

786
00:55:37,030 --> 00:55:39,290
Don't you see, sir?
This is our chance.

787
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,630
We never would have made
the first move deliberately...

788
00:55:41,700 --> 00:55:44,500
but Group Six has made it for us
by accident.

789
00:55:44,570 --> 00:55:47,300
We must take advantage of it.
History demands it.

790
00:55:47,370 --> 00:55:50,570
We must advise the president
not to recall those planes.

791
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:54,710
They're flaming out.

792
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:01,880
He's firing anyway.

793
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,440
There goes number two.

794
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:18,420
Mr. President,
the fighters have not succeeded.

795
00:57:19,500 --> 00:57:21,620
They’ve gone down into the sea.

796
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,970
What are the chances of our bombers
getting through to Moscow?

797
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,740
We've made the calculations
a hundred times:

798
00:57:37,820 --> 00:57:42,120
What they have in the way of defense,
what are planes are capable of doing.

799
00:57:42,190 --> 00:57:46,710
The Vindicators fly so fast, the Russian
won't be able to use all their defenses.

800
00:57:49,230 --> 00:57:51,530
One or two of the bombers
will get through.

801
00:57:54,270 --> 00:57:55,700
Thank you.

802
00:58:01,010 --> 00:58:03,940
Buck, I'll talk
to the Soviet premier now.

803
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,040
You'll translate
what he says to me.

804
00:58:07,110 --> 00:58:09,050
He'll have his own translator
telling him what I say...

805
00:58:09,110 --> 00:58:11,600
but I want something more
from you.

806
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:15,910
- Yes, sir, whatever I can do.
- The premier says what he means...

807
00:58:15,990 --> 00:58:20,650
but sometimes there's more
in a man's voice than in his words.

808
00:58:20,730 --> 00:58:23,890
There are words in one language
that don't mean the same in another.

809
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:25,760
- You follow me?
- I think so, sir.

810
00:58:25,830 --> 00:58:28,360
It's very important the premier and I
understand each other.

811
00:58:28,430 --> 00:58:29,870
I don't have to tell you that.

812
00:58:29,930 --> 00:58:34,200
So I want to know what he's saying
and what you think he's feeling.

813
00:58:34,270 --> 00:58:37,440
Any inflection of his voice,
any tone...

814
00:58:37,510 --> 00:58:40,670
any emotion that adds to his words...

815
00:58:40,750 --> 00:58:42,470
I want you to let me know.

816
00:58:42,550 --> 00:58:44,280
- Yes, sir. I'll do my best.
- I know you will.

817
00:58:44,350 --> 00:58:46,580
It's all any of us can do.

818
00:58:46,650 --> 00:58:49,050
Don't be afraid
to say what you think.

819
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:51,050
Don't be afraid all this
is too big for you.

820
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:56,320
It's big, but it still depends
on what each of us does.

821
00:58:57,700 --> 00:58:59,660
History lesson number one.

822
00:59:02,170 --> 00:59:04,230
I'll talk to Moscow now.

823
00:59:46,940 --> 00:59:48,410
It's the premier, sir.

824
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,940
Mr. Chairman, this is the president
of the United States.

825
00:59:52,020 --> 00:59:54,450
Do you hear me clearly?

826
00:59:56,790 --> 01:00:00,690
Fine, Mr. President.
How are you?

827
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:04,520
I'm calling you
on a matter of great urgency.

828
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,500
I hope it turns out
to be a small matter...

829
01:00:07,570 --> 01:00:09,860
but it's the first time
it's happened.

830
01:00:09,930 --> 01:00:11,800
If it's misunderstood,
it could be...

831
01:00:11,870 --> 01:00:15,360
Does it have to do
with the aircraft...

832
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:17,070
we have detected
flying towards Russia?

833
01:00:17,140 --> 01:00:19,080
Yes, Mr. Chairman.

834
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:26,420
I suppose it's another of your
off-course reconnaissance flights.

835
01:00:27,650 --> 01:00:30,590
Mr. President,
we have warned you repeatedly...

836
01:00:30,660 --> 01:00:32,620
that this constant flying
of armed aircraft...

837
01:00:32,690 --> 01:00:36,150
This is a serious mistake.

838
01:00:36,230 --> 01:00:38,160
I say, it's a mistake.

839
01:00:41,570 --> 01:00:45,130
Very well.
Tell me the mistake.

840
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:49,070
A group of our bombers each loaded
with two 20-megaton bombs...

841
01:00:49,140 --> 01:00:51,170
is flying towards your country.

842
01:00:54,250 --> 01:00:57,110
We shall watch with great interest...

843
01:00:57,180 --> 01:00:58,610
while you recall them.

844
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:01,170
So far we have been
unable to recall them.

845
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,720
Are the planes being flown
by crazy men?

846
01:01:09,790 --> 01:01:13,250
We're not sure.
It might be a mechanical failure.

847
01:01:13,330 --> 01:01:15,700
All I can tell you
is that it's an accident.

848
01:01:15,770 --> 01:01:19,630
It's not an attempt to provoke war.
It's not part of a general attack.

849
01:01:23,110 --> 01:01:26,700
How do I know you do not have
hundreds of other planes...

850
01:01:27,950 --> 01:01:30,380
coming in so low
our radar cannot pick them up?

851
01:01:31,750 --> 01:01:34,450
Because I hope to prove to you
that it's an accident...

852
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:36,110
that we take full responsibility...

853
01:01:36,190 --> 01:01:38,280
that we're doing everything we can
to correct it.

854
01:01:40,990 --> 01:01:42,420
- Go on.
- You must have seen...

855
01:01:42,490 --> 01:01:45,190
that we sent fighter planes
to shoot down the bombers.

856
01:01:47,670 --> 01:01:51,070
American fighters
to shoot down American bombers?

857
01:01:51,140 --> 01:01:52,360
That is correct.

858
01:01:54,140 --> 01:01:56,300
- And you gave that order?
- I did.

859
01:01:58,980 --> 01:02:01,910
How do I know that the planes
were not simply diving...

860
01:02:01,980 --> 01:02:05,470
to a low altitude
to escape our radar?

861
01:02:05,550 --> 01:02:08,070
On our plotting board, the action
could only be interpreted...

862
01:02:08,150 --> 01:02:09,920
as planes out of control.

863
01:02:09,990 --> 01:02:12,320
You have the same equipment we do.
What did it tell you?

864
01:02:15,260 --> 01:02:18,660
It did not tell us what is
in your mind, Mr. President.

865
01:02:18,730 --> 01:02:20,250
I'm telling you that.

866
01:02:22,270 --> 01:02:23,960
And you ask me
to believe you?

867
01:02:24,030 --> 01:02:25,330
You must believe me.

868
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:29,310
You ask for belief
at a curious time.

869
01:02:29,370 --> 01:02:31,400
If we don't trust each other now,
Mr. Chairman...

870
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:33,470
there may not be
another time.

871
01:02:36,710 --> 01:02:40,170
We saw your planes
fall into the sea.

872
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:44,880
I wanted only
to hear your explanation...

873
01:02:46,220 --> 01:02:48,350
and whether it was done
at your own order.

874
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:54,490
It is a hard thing to order men
to their death, is it not?

875
01:02:54,570 --> 01:02:55,660
It is.

876
01:02:59,170 --> 01:03:03,900
Sir, there's someone trying
to persuade him it's a trick.

877
01:03:03,970 --> 01:03:05,970
They want him
to strike back at once.

878
01:03:07,950 --> 01:03:11,640
Soviet airspace has still not
been violated, Mr. President.

879
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:15,680
But if it is, we will be forced
to shoot down your bombers.

880
01:03:16,990 --> 01:03:20,980
And then we will come to full alert
with all our missiles and planes.

881
01:03:21,060 --> 01:03:24,320
I understand that. I hope you're able
to shoot down our bombers.

882
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:29,290
But I urge you not to take any steps
that cannot be recalled.

883
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:33,770
You know we must
protect ourselves.

884
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,930
You also know that if you
launch missiles, we must do the same.

885
01:03:37,010 --> 01:03:40,000
If that happens, there'll be
very little left of the world.

886
01:03:42,780 --> 01:03:44,410
I understand.

887
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,420
Is there anything more
you wish to say?

888
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:48,350
If I may make a suggestion...

889
01:03:49,350 --> 01:03:51,380
I will arrange to open
a conference line...

890
01:03:51,460 --> 01:03:53,220
between our headquarters
in Omaha...

891
01:03:53,290 --> 01:03:56,090
and your similar officials
in the Soviet Union.

892
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:58,220
We will do all we can
to help you.

893
01:04:00,870 --> 01:04:02,360
We do not need your help.

894
01:04:02,430 --> 01:04:05,870
We are perfectly capable
of defending our country.

895
01:04:05,940 --> 01:04:09,900
As you wish, but I must tell you
what my people tell me.

896
01:04:09,970 --> 01:04:11,840
No matter what you do...

897
01:04:11,910 --> 01:04:14,970
at least one of the planes
will get through to the target.

898
01:04:16,780 --> 01:04:18,040
What is the target?

899
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:19,280
Moscow.

900
01:04:22,020 --> 01:04:25,010
I'll call you back when I see
what our fighters do.

901
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:22,640
How's the formation holding,
Sullivan?

902
01:05:23,980 --> 01:05:25,920
Everyone in line, sir.

903
01:05:25,980 --> 01:05:28,470
- How far from the border?
- Two minutes.

904
01:05:31,460 --> 01:05:33,450
We better start spreading out.

905
01:05:34,590 --> 01:05:38,220
Number six plane in the lead.
Flynn.

906
01:05:38,300 --> 01:05:39,690
Right here, Colonel.

907
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:45,560
- Go to work.
- Roger.

908
01:05:46,300 --> 01:05:48,400
Project the Soviet fighter planes.

909
01:05:49,570 --> 01:05:51,600
Give me tight scale
on the Russian border.

910
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,540
- That does it.
- They've crossed the border.

911
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,350
Well, Buck,
we're into Soviet territory.

912
01:06:08,830 --> 01:06:11,420
A technical state of war
now exists.

913
01:06:16,530 --> 01:06:19,000
Give me Enemy Defense Performance.

914
01:06:19,070 --> 01:06:21,130
This is Enemy Defense
Performance Desk, General Bogan.

915
01:06:21,210 --> 01:06:22,570
How do you read
the situation?

916
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:24,500
Our number six plane
carrying defensive equipment...

917
01:06:24,580 --> 01:06:26,510
and masking devices
has moved into the lead.

918
01:06:26,580 --> 01:06:28,940
All those new blips you see
are decoys that it's dropped.

919
01:06:29,010 --> 01:06:30,810
Have the Russian fighters
launched any missiles?

920
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:33,440
Not yet. You'll see their missiles
on your scope as tiny dots...

921
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:35,510
that appear suddenly
and then disappear.

922
01:06:35,590 --> 01:06:37,110
There go some of them now.

923
01:06:37,190 --> 01:06:38,920
You can see
they're confused by the decoys.

924
01:06:38,990 --> 01:06:41,120
They're still not grouping
where the real planes are.

925
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,360
Can you wipe the decoys off the screen
so we see just their planes and ours?

926
01:06:45,430 --> 01:06:47,160
There you are, General.

927
01:06:48,270 --> 01:06:50,890
They're still going after decoys.
Our boys aren't making it easy.

928
01:06:50,970 --> 01:06:52,200
Good.

929
01:06:53,700 --> 01:06:55,470
They've picked up
one of our planes now.

930
01:06:55,540 --> 01:06:57,840
Get them. Get them!

931
01:07:10,990 --> 01:07:12,820
Knock that off!

932
01:07:12,890 --> 01:07:15,420
This isn't some damn football game!
Remember that!

933
01:07:17,430 --> 01:07:19,420
That plane's in trouble.

934
01:07:31,180 --> 01:07:33,700
It looks like the Soviets
have a very slow missile...

935
01:07:33,780 --> 01:07:36,640
with a much longer range
than we thought they had.

936
01:07:36,710 --> 01:07:39,080
The slowness of speed
made our missile calculate...

937
01:07:39,150 --> 01:07:40,950
they must be drones or decoys...

938
01:07:41,020 --> 01:07:43,350
so it ignored them
and went after the fighters.

939
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,450
We can compensate for that.
The adjustment is minor.

940
01:07:53,500 --> 01:07:55,160
The premier is on the line, sir.

941
01:07:57,630 --> 01:07:59,470
Yes, Mr. Chairman?

942
01:08:02,140 --> 01:08:04,610
We have only
a little time left, Mr. President.

943
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:08,310
His voice is subdued, sir.

944
01:08:09,780 --> 01:08:11,710
It's not angry.
It's subdued.

945
01:08:12,950 --> 01:08:14,940
How shall we use this time?

946
01:08:16,250 --> 01:08:19,750
He sounds sorrowful, sad.

947
01:08:19,820 --> 01:08:21,950
What luck
are your fighters having?

948
01:08:24,190 --> 01:08:25,220
Luck?

949
01:08:26,060 --> 01:08:27,860
No luck at all.

950
01:08:27,930 --> 01:08:29,920
We have shot down
only one of your bombers.

951
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:31,990
What about the other five?

952
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:35,530
May be yes, maybe no.

953
01:08:37,170 --> 01:08:39,840
Your masking devices
are better than we had thought.

954
01:08:41,650 --> 01:08:43,770
Hundreds of targets
have appeared on the radar.

955
01:08:44,950 --> 01:08:47,920
Perhaps they are decoys.
Perhaps they are real bombers.

956
01:08:47,990 --> 01:08:50,650
Many of my experts
are convinced that they are real.

957
01:08:52,260 --> 01:08:54,780
They urge me to release
our own bombers at once.

958
01:08:54,860 --> 01:08:55,920
Why don't you, then?

959
01:08:57,630 --> 01:09:00,100
- Good question.
- Why haven't you counter attacked?

960
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,890
I am gambling
that you are sincere.

961
01:09:05,540 --> 01:09:08,160
My generals are not so happy
with me about this...

962
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:12,330
as I'm sure your generals
are not so happy with you.

963
01:09:12,410 --> 01:09:14,400
But there is time
for common sense.

964
01:09:16,950 --> 01:09:19,210
I must have proof,
Mr. President.

965
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:21,380
Neither of us wants war...

966
01:09:21,450 --> 01:09:24,610
but we must be convinced
that this is...

967
01:09:24,690 --> 01:09:26,050
truly a mistake...

968
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:29,150
that your intentions are not hostile
and that there is a chance for peace.

969
01:09:29,230 --> 01:09:32,160
Mr. Chairman,
let me ask you something.

970
01:09:32,860 --> 01:09:36,200
Just before our planes took off
from their fail-safe point...

971
01:09:36,270 --> 01:09:38,960
there was a white flash
on our plotting board.

972
01:09:39,970 --> 01:09:42,940
We think this is connected
to some mechanical failure...

973
01:09:43,010 --> 01:09:44,840
that might have activated
their "go" signal.

974
01:09:44,910 --> 01:09:48,400
Could this have been caused
by your radio interference?

975
01:09:49,810 --> 01:09:52,300
They're arguing
with him again, sir...

976
01:09:52,380 --> 01:09:55,410
telling him not to answer...
the information is too secret.

977
01:09:55,490 --> 01:09:59,150
Was it your jamming that kept us
from getting through to our planes?

978
01:10:01,730 --> 01:10:03,720
I do not know
about this jamming.

979
01:10:03,790 --> 01:10:04,850
I think he does.

980
01:10:06,830 --> 01:10:09,920
We cannot be responsible
for your mechanical failures.

981
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:11,830
Is it possible?
Could it have happened?

982
01:10:16,470 --> 01:10:19,570
You asked for proof, Mr. Chairman.
This could be it.

983
01:10:21,180 --> 01:10:23,270
They're arguing back and forth.

984
01:10:23,910 --> 01:10:25,310
"Don't trust you."

985
01:10:26,350 --> 01:10:27,340
"Have to trust you."

986
01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:29,810
"It's a trick."

987
01:10:30,550 --> 01:10:33,050
We're paying for our
mutual suspicions, Mr. Chairman.

988
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:35,420
I realize that,
but the wall must be broken.

989
01:10:35,490 --> 01:10:39,190
We have to break it down now.
We can't afford not to trust each other.

990
01:10:43,130 --> 01:10:45,620
We jammed your radios...

991
01:10:45,700 --> 01:10:48,690
with a special device
even I did not know about.

992
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:52,940
I suppose I must be
very proud of our scientists.

993
01:10:54,380 --> 01:10:56,850
It was more effective
than anyone dreamed.

994
01:10:56,910 --> 01:10:58,970
But why?
Why this time?

995
01:11:00,480 --> 01:11:02,880
We have computers, like yours.

996
01:11:03,890 --> 01:11:07,380
They computed that this time
your alert might be real.

997
01:11:07,460 --> 01:11:09,190
On what grounds?

998
01:11:11,730 --> 01:11:14,220
Probability.
The law of averages.

999
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:17,290
They have their own logic.

1000
01:11:17,370 --> 01:11:22,070
It is not human, but it is positive,
so we listen.

1001
01:11:22,140 --> 01:11:25,170
Will you lift the jamming so I
can talk to the group commander?

1002
01:11:27,510 --> 01:11:29,910
- Will he return on your command?
- There's a chance.

1003
01:11:31,010 --> 01:11:32,110
I'll give that order.

1004
01:11:33,180 --> 01:11:34,380
General Bogan.

1005
01:11:34,450 --> 01:11:35,750
Yes, Mr. President.

1006
01:11:35,820 --> 01:11:37,450
Put me through
to Group Six, fast.

1007
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:38,890
Right away, sir.

1008
01:11:39,890 --> 01:11:42,380
- What's the group commander’s name?
- Colonel Jack Grady, sir.

1009
01:11:42,460 --> 01:11:44,830
- Does he have a wife?
- I'll see, sir.

1010
01:11:44,900 --> 01:11:47,020
Turkey One, this is Ultimate One.
Can you hear me?

1011
01:11:47,860 --> 01:11:49,960
Turkey One, this is Ultimate One.
Can you hear me?

1012
01:11:50,630 --> 01:11:52,690
- Yes, sir, he does.
- Find her.

1013
01:11:52,770 --> 01:11:54,430
If I can't persuade him,
maybe she can.

1014
01:11:54,500 --> 01:11:57,270
- Yes, sir.
- Turkey One, can you hear me?

1015
01:11:57,340 --> 01:11:59,470
Turkey One, this is Ultimate One,
Can you hear me?

1016
01:11:59,540 --> 01:12:01,910
I have an important message.
Turkey One, can you hear me?

1017
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:08,780
Turkey One, can you hear me?

1018
01:12:08,850 --> 01:12:11,410
Turkey One, can you hear me?
This is Ultimate One.

1019
01:12:11,490 --> 01:12:13,050
They've stopped jamming us.

1020
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:17,490
This is Turkey One. I am not
authorized to receive messages.

1021
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:21,960
Colonel Grady, this is
the president of the United States.

1022
01:12:22,030 --> 01:12:25,660
The mission you are flying has been
triggered by a mechanical failure.

1023
01:12:25,740 --> 01:12:27,600
It is a mistake.

1024
01:12:27,670 --> 01:12:29,610
I order you
and the other planes...

1025
01:12:29,670 --> 01:12:31,140
to return at once.

1026
01:12:31,210 --> 01:12:33,140
Do you hear? At once!

1027
01:12:35,310 --> 01:12:37,750
Colonel Grady, I repeat.
This is the president.

1028
01:12:37,810 --> 01:12:40,680
I can no longer receive
tactical alterations by voice.

1029
01:12:40,750 --> 01:12:42,010
I know that, but...

1030
01:12:42,090 --> 01:12:44,680
What you're telling me, I've been
specifically ordered not to do!

1031
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:46,750
Damn it, Grady,
this is the president!

1032
01:12:59,900 --> 01:13:01,230
He's still on, sir.

1033
01:13:11,420 --> 01:13:14,110
Mr. Chairman,
I think it would be wise...

1034
01:13:14,180 --> 01:13:16,280
for you to remove yourself
from Moscow...

1035
01:13:16,350 --> 01:13:18,950
so that you'll be
out of danger.

1036
01:13:19,020 --> 01:13:21,680
It will allow us
to continue negotiations...

1037
01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:23,750
even if the worst happens.

1038
01:13:25,660 --> 01:13:28,500
I have made those arrangements.
His voice is tougher.

1039
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:35,030
Unfortunately,
we cannot remove Moscow.

1040
01:13:37,310 --> 01:13:39,300
It remains here,
open to your bombs...

1041
01:13:39,380 --> 01:13:40,810
and when it is destroyed...

1042
01:13:42,180 --> 01:13:45,010
it's people dead because there's
no time to evacuate them...

1043
01:13:47,380 --> 01:13:49,220
where shall we negotiate,
Mr. President?

1044
01:13:49,290 --> 01:13:52,260
Shall I come to Geneva, hat in hand,
begging for peace?

1045
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:54,520
I offered you help.
You refused it.

1046
01:13:54,590 --> 01:13:57,220
I offer it again. We will help you
shoot down the planes.

1047
01:14:00,900 --> 01:14:02,560
Set up your conference line.

1048
01:14:02,630 --> 01:14:05,100
I'll come back on the phone
when I'm a safe distance from Moscow.

1049
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:09,740
Activate the Ultimate One/Red One
Touch Phone, please.

1050
01:14:13,580 --> 01:14:15,310
Can we stop them, sir?

1051
01:14:33,100 --> 01:14:35,160
Fire. Fire.

1052
01:14:35,230 --> 01:14:37,960
Before he gets off
one of those slow ones.

1053
01:14:38,030 --> 01:14:42,440
Colonel, knock that off, or I'll
have you taken out of this room.

1054
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:55,450
Two down.
Four to go.

1055
01:15:13,440 --> 01:15:15,560
- Excuse me, sir.
- Yes?

1056
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:18,070
Every minute we wait
works against us.

1057
01:15:18,140 --> 01:15:19,400
Now, Mr. Secretary.

1058
01:15:19,480 --> 01:15:23,110
Now is when we must send in
a first strike.

1059
01:15:23,180 --> 01:15:25,510
We don't go in
for sneak attacks.

1060
01:15:25,580 --> 01:15:27,810
We had that done to us
at Pearl Harbor.

1061
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:30,320
And the Japanese
were right to do it.

1062
01:15:31,390 --> 01:15:34,410
From their point of view,
we were their mortal enemy.

1063
01:15:34,490 --> 01:15:37,590
As long as we existed,
we were a deadly threat to them.

1064
01:15:37,660 --> 01:15:40,790
Their only mistake was that
they failed to finish us at the start...

1065
01:15:40,860 --> 01:15:42,860
and they paid for that mistake
at Hiroshima.

1066
01:15:42,930 --> 01:15:45,270
You're talking about
a different kind of war.

1067
01:15:45,340 --> 01:15:48,960
Exactly. This time,
we can finish what we start.

1068
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:51,100
And if we act right now...

1069
01:15:51,170 --> 01:15:53,110
our casualties will be minimal.

1070
01:15:53,180 --> 01:15:54,800
Do you know what you're saying?

1071
01:15:59,480 --> 01:16:02,470
Do you believe that Communism
is not our mortal enemy?

1072
01:16:02,550 --> 01:16:04,920
You're justifying murder.

1073
01:16:04,990 --> 01:16:08,050
Yes, to keep from being murdered.

1074
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:11,290
In the name of what?
To preserve what?

1075
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:15,700
Even if we do survive, what are we,
better than what we say they are?

1076
01:16:15,770 --> 01:16:17,600
What gives us the right to live, then?

1077
01:16:17,670 --> 01:16:19,730
What makes us worth surviving,
Groteschele?

1078
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:21,630
That we are ruthless enough
to strike first?

1079
01:16:21,710 --> 01:16:23,140
Yes!

1080
01:16:24,140 --> 01:16:28,910
Those who can survive
are the only ones worth surviving.

1081
01:16:28,980 --> 01:16:30,970
Fighting for your life
isn't the same as murder.

1082
01:16:31,050 --> 01:16:33,910
Where do you draw the line
once you know what the enemy is?

1083
01:16:33,980 --> 01:16:36,180
How long would the Nazis
have kept it up...

1084
01:16:36,250 --> 01:16:39,150
if every Jew they came after
had met them with a gun in his hand?

1085
01:16:39,220 --> 01:16:43,350
But I learned from them, General Black.
Oh, I learned.

1086
01:16:43,430 --> 01:16:46,050
You learned too well, Professor.

1087
01:16:46,130 --> 01:16:48,120
You learned so well that now
there's no difference...

1088
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:50,190
between you
and what you want to kill.

1089
01:17:14,220 --> 01:17:15,660
Yes, Mr. President.

1090
01:17:17,190 --> 01:17:19,320
Contact our ambassador
to Moscow.

1091
01:17:20,330 --> 01:17:23,990
Also the Soviet delegate
to the United Nations.

1092
01:17:24,070 --> 01:17:26,060
Hook them onto my line.

1093
01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:29,190
When the Soviet premier
comes back on the phone...

1094
01:17:29,270 --> 01:17:31,330
put us all on together.

1095
01:17:31,410 --> 01:17:32,970
Yes, Mr. President.

1096
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:35,070
Is the Touch Phone open
between Omaha...

1097
01:17:35,150 --> 01:17:37,080
and the Soviet
command headquarters?

1098
01:17:37,150 --> 01:17:39,140
- Yes, sir, all ready.
- Keep it open.

1099
01:17:52,900 --> 01:17:53,890
General Black.

1100
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:56,890
Yes, Mr. President.

1101
01:18:00,770 --> 01:18:02,330
Remember your Old Testament?

1102
01:18:03,340 --> 01:18:04,500
A little.

1103
01:18:06,380 --> 01:18:08,440
Remember the story
of the sacrifice of Abraham?

1104
01:18:08,510 --> 01:18:11,450
Old what's-his-name
used to use it in chapel...

1105
01:18:11,510 --> 01:18:13,510
at least twice a year.

1106
01:18:15,790 --> 01:18:17,010
I remember, sir.

1107
01:18:18,050 --> 01:18:20,820
Keep it in mind
the next few hours.

1108
01:18:20,890 --> 01:18:22,020
I need your help.

1109
01:18:23,830 --> 01:18:25,590
Get out to Andrews Field
right away.

1110
01:18:25,660 --> 01:18:27,650
Orders will be
waiting for you there.

1111
01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:29,460
Yes, sir.

1112
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:33,430
Blackie, are Katherine
and the kids in New York?

1113
01:18:35,510 --> 01:18:36,490
Yes, sir.

1114
01:18:38,440 --> 01:18:40,470
I may be asking
a great deal of you.

1115
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:45,210
I'll do whatever you say.

1116
01:18:50,090 --> 01:18:51,420
Good luck, Blackie.

1117
01:18:53,220 --> 01:18:54,880
General Bogan.

1118
01:18:54,960 --> 01:18:56,450
Yes, Mr. President?

1119
01:18:56,530 --> 01:18:58,930
I've activated the Touch Phone
between you and the Soviet command.

1120
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:01,120
- Will you test it, please?
- Yes, sir.

1121
01:19:34,230 --> 01:19:37,830
This is General Bogan,
Strategic Air Command, Omaha.

1122
01:19:37,900 --> 01:19:40,270
I am the translator
for Marshal Nevsky.

1123
01:19:41,940 --> 01:19:44,030
Marshal Nevsky
sends his greetings.

1124
01:19:45,910 --> 01:19:47,070
The same to him.

1125
01:19:47,140 --> 01:19:50,340
Our reception is five-by-five.
How do you read us?

1126
01:19:50,410 --> 01:19:52,470
We read you five-by-five.

1127
01:19:52,550 --> 01:19:54,740
One moment, please.
Mr. President...

1128
01:19:54,820 --> 01:19:55,810
we're through to them.

1129
01:19:55,890 --> 01:19:56,870
Thank you, General.

1130
01:19:56,950 --> 01:20:00,120
Put me on your public address system
so everyone can hear what I say.

1131
01:20:00,190 --> 01:20:02,180
I want the Russians to be able
to hear as well.

1132
01:20:02,260 --> 01:20:03,320
Yes, sir.

1133
01:20:04,090 --> 01:20:05,190
Ready, sir.

1134
01:20:11,570 --> 01:20:14,470
Gentlemen, this is the president
of the United States.

1135
01:20:16,210 --> 01:20:19,200
Whatever orders I give
to American personnel...

1136
01:20:20,380 --> 01:20:23,310
are to be considered direct orders
from the commander in chief.

1137
01:20:24,450 --> 01:20:27,110
They are to be obeyed fully...

1138
01:20:27,180 --> 01:20:30,120
without reservation
and at once.

1139
01:20:31,450 --> 01:20:33,290
We must do
everything we can...

1140
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:36,120
to prevent our planes
from attacking Moscow.

1141
01:20:37,830 --> 01:20:40,960
The Soviet premier has behaved
as I believe I would...

1142
01:20:41,030 --> 01:20:43,090
under similar conditions.

1143
01:20:43,870 --> 01:20:45,390
He has delayed retaliation.

1144
01:20:45,470 --> 01:20:48,730
I think he believes
this is an accident...

1145
01:20:48,810 --> 01:20:53,500
but we must convince him
and his chief advisors that it is.

1146
01:20:55,110 --> 01:20:57,980
I therefore order
every American...

1147
01:20:58,050 --> 01:20:59,840
to cooperate fully...

1148
01:20:59,920 --> 01:21:01,380
with Soviet officers...

1149
01:21:02,390 --> 01:21:05,320
in shooting down
our invading planes.

1150
01:21:07,190 --> 01:21:10,180
You are to give
whatever information they request.

1151
01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:15,520
Any hesitation,
any withholding of information...

1152
01:21:16,830 --> 01:21:19,030
can have
the most tragic consequences.

1153
01:21:20,300 --> 01:21:22,570
I cannot emphasize this
too strongly.

1154
01:21:24,810 --> 01:21:25,870
Are there any questions?

1155
01:21:29,110 --> 01:21:32,480
Gentlemen, I expect you
to conduct yourselves as patriots...

1156
01:21:35,050 --> 01:21:37,080
and I wish you success.

1157
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:45,190
Do the missiles on these bombers...

1158
01:21:45,260 --> 01:21:48,560
have both infrared
and radar homing capabilities?

1159
01:21:48,630 --> 01:21:51,070
A number of our fighter planes
have been destroyed...

1160
01:21:51,130 --> 01:21:54,870
by a missile that seems to home
not on the infrared source...

1161
01:21:54,940 --> 01:21:56,300
but on the radar transmitter.

1162
01:21:56,370 --> 01:21:57,360
Is it possible?

1163
01:21:57,440 --> 01:21:59,430
Colonel Cascio
will answer your question.

1164
01:22:01,610 --> 01:22:03,310
Answer the question, Colonel.

1165
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:07,310
That is a direct order.

1166
01:22:07,380 --> 01:22:09,010
An order, Colonel!

1167
01:22:10,290 --> 01:22:11,980
Colonel!

1168
01:22:13,790 --> 01:22:15,380
Just a moment, please.

1169
01:22:15,460 --> 01:22:16,450
Major Handel.

1170
01:22:20,300 --> 01:22:21,630
General Bogan...

1171
01:22:22,630 --> 01:22:24,690
Sergeant Collins, on the double!

1172
01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:29,830
You're backup man
on fire control, aren't you?

1173
01:22:29,910 --> 01:22:30,900
Yes, sir.

1174
01:22:30,970 --> 01:22:34,470
Do our Vindicator missiles have both
infrared- and radar-seeking capacity?

1175
01:22:36,480 --> 01:22:37,840
Yes, sir.

1176
01:22:37,910 --> 01:22:40,440
Loud and clear! They've got
to know we're on the level!

1177
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,590
It has both capacities, sir.

1178
01:22:45,660 --> 01:22:47,680
Can the radar-seeking mechanism
be overloaded...

1179
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:49,850
by increasing
the strength of the signal?

1180
01:22:50,690 --> 01:22:51,750
Tell them!

1181
01:22:53,500 --> 01:22:54,720
Yes, sir.

1182
01:22:55,370 --> 01:22:57,700
It can be overloaded...

1183
01:22:58,970 --> 01:23:00,900
but by increasing the power output...

1184
01:23:00,970 --> 01:23:04,300
and sliding through radar frequencies
as fast as possible...

1185
01:23:05,340 --> 01:23:07,330
what happens is
the firing mechanism...

1186
01:23:07,410 --> 01:23:11,400
reads the higher amperage
as proximity to the target...

1187
01:23:11,480 --> 01:23:13,570
and detonates the warhead.

1188
01:23:17,550 --> 01:23:19,080
Thank you, General Bogan.

1189
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:21,020
We will be back to you.

1190
01:23:22,290 --> 01:23:23,720
That's all, Sergeant.

1191
01:23:40,780 --> 01:23:42,800
What does it mean?

1192
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:45,810
We've told them how to blow up
our air-to-air missiles...

1193
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:50,440
and with them, our planes.

1194
01:23:59,030 --> 01:24:00,550
They're picking us up.

1195
01:24:02,030 --> 01:24:05,190
Thomas, send out the code
for the alternate flight plan.

1196
01:24:05,270 --> 01:24:07,290
We're going down to the floor.

1197
01:24:25,350 --> 01:24:28,650
They're trying to avoid the fighters
by going too low for their radar.

1198
01:24:33,830 --> 01:24:35,800
I'm sorry, General, l...

1199
01:24:35,870 --> 01:24:38,630
I don't know what happened.
I just couldn't do it.

1200
01:24:38,700 --> 01:24:40,690
It was like a...
I don't know, a fit or something.

1201
01:24:40,770 --> 01:24:42,000
Colonel, l...

1202
01:24:44,370 --> 01:24:45,600
Forget it.

1203
01:24:48,180 --> 01:24:50,240
Who could have expected
this situation?

1204
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:53,210
General, l...

1205
01:24:54,380 --> 01:24:56,540
I think this is all a trap.

1206
01:24:57,990 --> 01:24:59,980
They wanted this to happen.

1207
01:25:01,360 --> 01:25:04,090
We know they've been trying
to foul up our fail-safe signal.

1208
01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:09,990
I think we should tell
the president it's a trap.

1209
01:25:10,070 --> 01:25:12,470
They're just using the time
to get their missiles ready...

1210
01:25:12,540 --> 01:25:14,530
and fly their bombers
into position.

1211
01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:16,540
We have no evidence of that.

1212
01:25:16,610 --> 01:25:19,370
They could be flying their bombers
in the grass.

1213
01:25:19,440 --> 01:25:21,380
They could have
fired missiles already...

1214
01:25:21,440 --> 01:25:23,500
and put them up in the orbit
of known satellites...

1215
01:25:23,580 --> 01:25:25,100
where we couldn't detect them.

1216
01:25:25,180 --> 01:25:28,240
We computed that problem. Satellites
could be used to mask missiles.

1217
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:30,410
We computed
a lot of problems.

1218
01:25:30,490 --> 01:25:32,950
I'm not reporting anything
I don't know for sure.

1219
01:25:35,020 --> 01:25:37,150
I think we should recommend
a full-strength attack.

1220
01:25:37,230 --> 01:25:39,220
That is not our decision!
The Pentagon...

1221
01:25:39,300 --> 01:25:42,230
They don't know what we know.
They're not soldiers anymore.

1222
01:25:42,300 --> 01:25:44,530
They're politicians.

1223
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:46,630
They don't care
what happens to us.

1224
01:25:47,940 --> 01:25:50,600
They make a mistake,
that's politics.

1225
01:25:50,670 --> 01:25:53,300
They send out men
to be killed. For what?

1226
01:25:54,580 --> 01:25:56,940
To make some lousy deal,
to sell us out.

1227
01:25:58,480 --> 01:26:00,850
Save the world, save us.

1228
01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:03,440
Save our country
before they destroy it...

1229
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:05,510
with their stinking politics.

1230
01:26:06,590 --> 01:26:09,750
Order a first strike, General.
Put an end to it once and for all.

1231
01:26:09,830 --> 01:26:11,820
You have the power.
You can do it!

1232
01:26:11,890 --> 01:26:13,050
Colonel!

1233
01:26:14,230 --> 01:26:18,170
You are talking treason. Stop it now,
or I'll have you put under arrest.

1234
01:26:19,470 --> 01:26:21,770
General Bogan,
this is Marshal Nevsky.

1235
01:26:21,840 --> 01:26:23,500
Yes, Marshal.

1236
01:26:23,570 --> 01:26:25,400
Can you give us
the longitude and latitude...

1237
01:26:25,470 --> 01:26:26,960
of the three remaining planes.

1238
01:26:27,040 --> 01:26:28,840
Yes, but we can't give you
their altitude.

1239
01:26:28,910 --> 01:26:30,970
The signals we're getting
are too distorted.

1240
01:26:31,050 --> 01:26:33,480
Will you please give us
the position of the three planes?

1241
01:26:33,550 --> 01:26:35,520
We can fly fighters
at various altitudes.

1242
01:26:35,590 --> 01:26:36,850
Can do.

1243
01:26:38,750 --> 01:26:41,190
Gentlemen, I am taking over
command of this post...

1244
01:26:41,260 --> 01:26:43,850
at the specific order
of the president of the United States.

1245
01:26:43,930 --> 01:26:46,550
He has long been aware that
General Bogan is mentally unbalanced...

1246
01:26:46,630 --> 01:26:48,620
and has warned me
to observe him closely.

1247
01:26:48,700 --> 01:26:51,030
The negotiations which General Bogan
has been conducting with the enemy...

1248
01:26:51,100 --> 01:26:52,860
are the acts of a lunatic.

1249
01:26:52,940 --> 01:26:54,990
By the direct authority
of the president...

1250
01:26:55,070 --> 01:26:57,600
I now command you
to take all orders from...

1251
01:26:57,670 --> 01:27:00,770
Colonel?
We got orders, Colonel.

1252
01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:02,830
You make a fuss, we'll kill you.

1253
01:27:04,710 --> 01:27:05,770
You're a traitor.

1254
01:27:05,850 --> 01:27:08,180
You're worse than anybody.

1255
01:27:08,250 --> 01:27:10,410
You wear the uniform.
You have men under your command.

1256
01:27:10,490 --> 01:27:13,850
You're in the field, but you want them
dead before they find you out!

1257
01:27:13,920 --> 01:27:15,820
You want me dead!

1258
01:27:15,890 --> 01:27:18,380
I saw it this morning
when you found me with those people.

1259
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:23,590
I'm better than you are!

1260
01:27:26,170 --> 01:27:27,640
It's a mistake!

1261
01:27:28,540 --> 01:27:31,970
You're betraying us all!
You're making a mistake!

1262
01:27:33,110 --> 01:27:36,200
I'm better than you are.
You're a traitor.

1263
01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:38,580
You're betraying us all!

1264
01:27:49,460 --> 01:27:50,650
Marshal Nevsky?

1265
01:27:50,730 --> 01:27:51,920
Yes, sir.

1266
01:27:53,130 --> 01:27:55,220
I am prepared to give you
the longitude and latitude...

1267
01:27:55,300 --> 01:27:57,790
of our bombers
in accordance with your request.

1268
01:27:57,870 --> 01:28:00,500
I was aware of your difficulty,
General Bogan.

1269
01:28:00,570 --> 01:28:02,660
We have had
such problems ourselves.

1270
01:28:02,740 --> 01:28:04,170
I await your information.

1271
01:28:04,240 --> 01:28:05,730
Major Handel.

1272
01:28:17,790 --> 01:28:19,450
General,
you better have a doctor...

1273
01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:21,290
They've got another one.

1274
01:28:23,530 --> 01:28:25,860
Sit down, anyway.
That was a bad knock.

1275
01:28:29,430 --> 01:28:31,760
Anyone could crack
under the strain.

1276
01:28:31,830 --> 01:28:33,930
If you ask me,
he was on the edge...

1277
01:28:34,000 --> 01:28:35,990
He was a good soldier.

1278
01:28:46,150 --> 01:28:48,340
The Soviet premier
is coming back on the line, sir.

1279
01:28:48,420 --> 01:28:50,650
The ambassador and
the Soviet delegate are already on.

1280
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:53,210
- Have they been told?
- Yes, sir, as you said.

1281
01:28:53,290 --> 01:28:54,380
Good.

1282
01:28:56,060 --> 01:28:57,460
Jay, where are you?

1283
01:28:57,530 --> 01:29:00,050
On the top floor of the embassy
in Moscow, Mr. President.

1284
01:29:00,130 --> 01:29:01,650
Where are you, Mr. Lentov?

1285
01:29:01,730 --> 01:29:03,820
In the U.N. Building in New York.

1286
01:29:06,340 --> 01:29:09,170
I suppose there is a reason...

1287
01:29:09,240 --> 01:29:12,570
for your ambassador
and Comrade Lentov to join us.

1288
01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:14,610
There is, Mr. Chairman.

1289
01:29:16,380 --> 01:29:17,900
Then let's get on with it.

1290
01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:23,120
His voice is firmer, sir.
Final.

1291
01:29:23,190 --> 01:29:24,910
Like he's made up his mind.

1292
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:29,910
In a few minutes,
the bombs may be falling.

1293
01:29:32,560 --> 01:29:35,620
I have brought our forces
to a condition of full readiness.

1294
01:29:37,970 --> 01:29:41,130
Unless we can satisfy one another,
I must release those forces.

1295
01:29:42,200 --> 01:29:44,330
What do you propose,
Mr. President?

1296
01:29:44,410 --> 01:29:48,040
Do your people think there is still
a chance of bringing down the bombers?

1297
01:29:51,010 --> 01:29:53,480
There is always a chance.

1298
01:29:53,550 --> 01:29:55,540
But I'm asking you,
what if they cannot?

1299
01:29:58,020 --> 01:29:59,180
What will you do?

1300
01:29:59,260 --> 01:30:01,620
Have you made a decision?

1301
01:30:01,690 --> 01:30:03,320
Yes.

1302
01:30:04,730 --> 01:30:08,190
It's my decision,
and I take full responsibility.

1303
01:30:09,670 --> 01:30:10,650
Mr. Swenson...

1304
01:30:10,730 --> 01:30:12,360
are you on the line?

1305
01:30:12,440 --> 01:30:13,560
Yes, Mr. President.

1306
01:30:13,640 --> 01:30:15,800
- General Bogan?
- Yes, sir.

1307
01:30:17,910 --> 01:30:22,310
This is what will happen if even one
of the bombers gets through.

1308
01:30:22,380 --> 01:30:27,210
It will drop two
20-megaton bombs on Moscow.

1309
01:30:27,280 --> 01:30:29,440
- Jay?
- Yes, Mr. President?

1310
01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:31,880
You might hear
the sound of the engines...

1311
01:30:31,950 --> 01:30:33,890
just before the bombs drop,
maybe not.

1312
01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:37,220
In any case, you'll hear
the defensive missiles going off.

1313
01:30:37,290 --> 01:30:40,020
Right after that,
the bombs will explode.

1314
01:30:41,230 --> 01:30:43,530
I'm told that what we will hear
at this end...

1315
01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:46,330
will be a high, shrill sound.

1316
01:30:47,540 --> 01:30:49,530
That will be
the ambassador's phone...

1317
01:30:49,610 --> 01:30:51,600
melting from the heat
of the fireball.

1318
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:55,170
When we hear that sound...

1319
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,110
the ambassador will be dead.

1320
01:31:00,120 --> 01:31:01,980
You understand,
Mr. Ambassador...

1321
01:31:02,050 --> 01:31:04,210
you're to stay
exactly where you are.

1322
01:31:04,290 --> 01:31:06,310
Yes, Mr. President.

1323
01:31:06,390 --> 01:31:07,950
He's got to attack.

1324
01:31:09,660 --> 01:31:11,090
Is this your proposal?

1325
01:31:12,660 --> 01:31:15,560
To sacrifice one American
for five million Russians?

1326
01:31:15,630 --> 01:31:17,930
No, no, listen to me!

1327
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:23,830
I've ordered a Vindicator bomber
into the air from Washington.

1328
01:31:23,910 --> 01:31:27,210
In a few minutes, it will be
flying over New York City.

1329
01:31:27,280 --> 01:31:30,370
It is carrying two
20-megaton bombs.

1330
01:31:31,450 --> 01:31:33,920
The moment I know
that Moscow has been hit...

1331
01:31:35,320 --> 01:31:38,290
I will order that plane
to drop its bombs.

1332
01:31:38,350 --> 01:31:41,350
It will use the Empire State Building
for ground zero.

1333
01:31:42,730 --> 01:31:45,790
When we hear the shriek
of Mr. Lentov's phone melting...

1334
01:31:48,700 --> 01:31:51,290
we will know that he is gone...

1335
01:31:51,370 --> 01:31:53,630
and with him, New York.

1336
01:31:56,140 --> 01:31:57,160
Holy Mother of God.

1337
01:31:57,910 --> 01:31:59,170
No.

1338
01:32:01,680 --> 01:32:03,370
He can't do it.

1339
01:32:05,150 --> 01:32:06,810
What else can he do?

1340
01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:12,540
I don't know any other way,
Mr. Chairman, unless...

1341
01:32:14,590 --> 01:32:17,120
unless you feel
the offer itself is enough.

1342
01:32:18,230 --> 01:32:19,660
Showing our intentions.

1343
01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:23,960
Would you think it enough?

1344
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:29,060
If Russian bombers
were flying against New York...

1345
01:32:31,070 --> 01:32:34,510
could you accept
only my good intentions?

1346
01:32:36,010 --> 01:32:37,480
No.

1347
01:32:38,680 --> 01:32:40,620
I believe
this was an accident.

1348
01:32:42,950 --> 01:32:45,110
But I also believe
your action...

1349
01:32:45,190 --> 01:32:47,180
is the only way out.

1350
01:32:49,430 --> 01:32:52,420
I ask you to believe
I wish it were not so.

1351
01:32:54,300 --> 01:32:55,350
Yes.

1352
01:32:56,670 --> 01:32:59,830
We can still hope
I won't have to take that action.

1353
01:33:25,330 --> 01:33:26,660
How close to target?

1354
01:33:28,230 --> 01:33:29,630
Fourteen minutes, sir.

1355
01:33:29,700 --> 01:33:31,690
How many planes left?

1356
01:33:31,770 --> 01:33:33,760
Just us and number six.

1357
01:33:38,170 --> 01:33:39,230
Flynn.

1358
01:33:39,980 --> 01:33:41,240
Still here, Grady.

1359
01:33:41,310 --> 01:33:43,300
What's your condition?

1360
01:33:43,380 --> 01:33:45,710
Slight wing damage
from ordinary flak. That’s all.

1361
01:33:45,780 --> 01:33:47,870
Speed down to 1350.
Drag even.

1362
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:51,110
How many decoys
do you have left?

1363
01:33:51,190 --> 01:33:53,180
How many do you need?

1364
01:33:53,260 --> 01:33:55,280
Well, I got the bombs.
You don't.

1365
01:33:55,360 --> 01:33:58,350
I want you to take some
of those fighters off my tail.

1366
01:33:58,430 --> 01:34:00,290
- Will do.
- Billy?

1367
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:01,560
Yeah?

1368
01:34:02,530 --> 01:34:04,090
I depend on you.

1369
01:34:09,170 --> 01:34:11,770
General Bogan, can you
explain this maneuver?

1370
01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:13,470
One of your planes
has just appeared again.

1371
01:34:13,540 --> 01:34:15,940
It's standard procedure,
Marshal Nevsky.

1372
01:34:16,010 --> 01:34:18,810
That's our number six plane,
the decoy plane.

1373
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:21,210
It's trying to draw your fighters
away from our other plane...

1374
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:22,270
carrying the bombs.

1375
01:34:22,350 --> 01:34:23,820
I see.

1376
01:34:23,890 --> 01:34:26,820
It carries only defensive equipment.
You don't have to worry about it.

1377
01:34:26,890 --> 01:34:30,150
Thank you. We shall try
for a kill in any case.

1378
01:34:31,290 --> 01:34:34,590
You'll scatter your forces.
You don't have time for that.

1379
01:34:37,130 --> 01:34:41,500
I tell you, it doesn't carry any bombs.
You don't have to worry about it!

1380
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:46,170
You're letting
our other plane get through!

1381
01:34:52,050 --> 01:34:53,640
I told you!

1382
01:34:56,650 --> 01:34:58,120
There has been a...

1383
01:34:58,850 --> 01:35:00,950
Marshal Nevsky has collapsed.

1384
01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:05,150
It appears...
Well, I don’t know.

1385
01:35:06,330 --> 01:35:08,350
General Koniev
is now in command.

1386
01:35:09,930 --> 01:35:11,190
Bogan, what's happened?

1387
01:35:11,270 --> 01:35:15,830
Marshal Nevsky sent his fighters
after a plane that carried no bombs.

1388
01:35:16,910 --> 01:35:20,710
That means our number one plane
will almost certainly get through.

1389
01:35:20,780 --> 01:35:24,470
The marshal realized that.
It was too much for him.

1390
01:35:24,550 --> 01:35:26,740
General Bogan,
this is General Koniev.

1391
01:35:26,820 --> 01:35:28,810
Do you have the remaining plane
on your screen?

1392
01:35:28,880 --> 01:35:30,320
No, sir, we do not.

1393
01:35:30,390 --> 01:35:33,220
We cannot see it on our radar,
and it is flying so fast...

1394
01:35:33,290 --> 01:35:34,950
our anti-aircraft is useless.

1395
01:35:35,020 --> 01:35:37,220
I must assume
the plane will get through.

1396
01:35:37,290 --> 01:35:39,120
- Yes.
- I intend to focus...

1397
01:35:39,190 --> 01:35:42,290
all our remaining rockets
on the estimated path of the plane...

1398
01:35:42,360 --> 01:35:44,360
and fire them all off at once.

1399
01:35:44,430 --> 01:35:47,530
Our hope is to setup
a thermonuclear barrier...

1400
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:49,590
that nothing can penetrate.

1401
01:35:49,670 --> 01:35:51,870
That might work.
It's worth a chance.

1402
01:36:03,790 --> 01:36:06,760
You speak English
very well, General.

1403
01:36:06,820 --> 01:36:10,090
I was liaison to your headquarters
in London during the war.

1404
01:36:11,560 --> 01:36:13,550
I was stationed
right outside of London.

1405
01:36:14,630 --> 01:36:17,690
Yes, I know.
With the 8th Air Force.

1406
01:36:17,770 --> 01:36:19,600
Did you like London?

1407
01:36:21,100 --> 01:36:22,470
Very much.

1408
01:36:25,470 --> 01:36:26,740
So did I.

1409
01:36:27,640 --> 01:36:30,610
The great cities are those
where one can walk.

1410
01:36:31,880 --> 01:36:34,210
I would walk
all the time in London.

1411
01:36:34,280 --> 01:36:36,220
Wherever you turn,
there's history.

1412
01:36:38,320 --> 01:36:40,880
General, are you in Moscow now?

1413
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:42,050
No.

1414
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:45,250
I was ordered to leave.

1415
01:36:45,330 --> 01:36:47,020
Is your...

1416
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:54,090
It's a hard day.

1417
01:36:56,740 --> 01:36:57,970
Yes, a hard day.

1418
01:37:00,380 --> 01:37:02,240
Good-bye, my friend.

1419
01:37:03,710 --> 01:37:05,340
Good-bye, my friend.

1420
01:37:08,620 --> 01:37:10,710
- Colonel Grady, sir.
- What is it, Thomas?

1421
01:37:10,790 --> 01:37:11,810
The infrared indicator...

1422
01:37:11,890 --> 01:37:14,620
shows a large number of ground-to-air
rockets ignited ahead of us.

1423
01:37:14,690 --> 01:37:16,320
They should show on the scope soon.

1424
01:37:16,390 --> 01:37:18,620
What do you know
about those rockets?

1425
01:37:18,690 --> 01:37:20,290
They're no different
from ours, sir.

1426
01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:22,420
Designed to home in
on heat-producing engines...

1427
01:37:22,500 --> 01:37:24,260
like an airplane.

1428
01:37:25,230 --> 01:37:27,670
They can't be aiming at us. We're
too low. They'd blow themselves up.

1429
01:37:27,740 --> 01:37:29,760
What are they doing
with them?

1430
01:37:31,340 --> 01:37:32,740
- General Bogan?
- Yes.

1431
01:37:32,810 --> 01:37:35,300
They found Mrs. Grady.
She's standing by.

1432
01:37:35,380 --> 01:37:36,810
Mr. President.

1433
01:37:36,880 --> 01:37:38,940
- We have Grady's wife.
- Can we get through to him?

1434
01:37:39,010 --> 01:37:42,250
If he follows procedure, he'll contact
us when he within range of the target.

1435
01:37:42,320 --> 01:37:44,620
Those are his orders so that we know
how to evaluate the strike.

1436
01:37:44,690 --> 01:37:47,750
- He's been following orders so far.
- Yes, sir.

1437
01:37:47,820 --> 01:37:49,310
Keep your fingers crossed.

1438
01:37:50,390 --> 01:37:51,920
- Thomas.
- Yes, sir.

1439
01:37:53,030 --> 01:37:54,860
Would their rockets
follow missiles too?

1440
01:37:54,930 --> 01:37:57,190
I don't see why not.
A missile produces heat.

1441
01:37:58,130 --> 01:37:59,900
I think I know
what they're gonna do.

1442
01:37:59,970 --> 01:38:03,560
Explode the rockets on top of us,
hope to knock us down with a blast.

1443
01:38:03,640 --> 01:38:05,870
They can do it too. How many
air-to-air missiles are left?

1444
01:38:05,940 --> 01:38:07,100
Two.

1445
01:38:08,080 --> 01:38:10,910
The minute you see those rockets
ignite on the scope...

1446
01:38:10,980 --> 01:38:14,350
you fire our missiles and guide them
for maximum elevation straight up.

1447
01:38:14,420 --> 01:38:15,440
Straight up.

1448
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:17,350
Yeah. Maybe their rockets
will follow the missiles...

1449
01:38:17,420 --> 01:38:19,150
explode too high to hurt us.

1450
01:38:19,220 --> 01:38:20,480
Yes, sir.

1451
01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:24,820
Colonel Grady, we're in range.
We have to report in.

1452
01:38:24,890 --> 01:38:26,520
Watch that scope.

1453
01:38:28,500 --> 01:38:30,900
Ultimate One,
this is Turkey One.

1454
01:38:30,970 --> 01:38:33,230
- Can you hear me?
- Grady, this is General Bogan.

1455
01:38:33,300 --> 01:38:37,000
Keep receiving no matter what you hear.
Do you understand? Keep receiving.

1456
01:38:37,070 --> 01:38:39,230
Jack.

1457
01:38:39,310 --> 01:38:40,640
This is Helen.

1458
01:38:41,340 --> 01:38:42,330
It's Helen.

1459
01:38:42,410 --> 01:38:44,350
Do you recognize my voice?

1460
01:38:44,410 --> 01:38:46,240
It's not a trick.

1461
01:38:46,320 --> 01:38:47,510
It's me.

1462
01:38:47,580 --> 01:38:50,520
Jack, you must turn back.

1463
01:38:50,590 --> 01:38:52,550
You mustn't drop those bombs.

1464
01:38:52,620 --> 01:38:54,680
- Do you hear me?
- Is it really your wife?

1465
01:38:55,660 --> 01:38:57,820
They've started their rockets.

1466
01:38:57,890 --> 01:38:59,830
Fire one.

1467
01:38:59,900 --> 01:39:01,490
Do you hear what I'm saying?

1468
01:39:02,130 --> 01:39:03,830
Fire two.

1469
01:39:06,540 --> 01:39:08,730
Keep them at least 2,500 feet
above the rockets.

1470
01:39:08,800 --> 01:39:11,930
- Yes, sir.
- Jack...

1471
01:39:12,010 --> 01:39:14,570
There's no war!
We're fine!

1472
01:39:16,450 --> 01:39:17,910
You must turn back!

1473
01:39:18,780 --> 01:39:20,250
They're at 18,000.

1474
01:39:20,320 --> 01:39:23,250
- Go! Go!
- Nineteen.

1475
01:39:23,320 --> 01:39:25,950
- 20,000 feet.
- The rockets are following them!

1476
01:39:26,020 --> 01:39:27,960
Boost them as much as you can.
The higher, the better.

1477
01:39:28,020 --> 01:39:30,120
I've never lied to you, have I?

1478
01:39:30,190 --> 01:39:33,360
- 50,000.
- I couldn't, no matter what.

1479
01:39:33,430 --> 01:39:35,360
You've got to believe me!

1480
01:39:35,430 --> 01:39:37,130
80,000 feet.

1481
01:39:37,200 --> 01:39:39,930
Ninety. A hundred.

1482
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:43,230
- They're slowing down.
- 130,000. 140,000.

1483
01:39:43,310 --> 01:39:46,900
- We'd better get some altitude.
- Jack, please, answer me!

1484
01:39:46,980 --> 01:39:48,410
170,000!

1485
01:39:48,480 --> 01:39:52,910
Jack, do you...
Answer me, please!

1486
01:39:52,980 --> 01:39:55,880
You can't trust it, sir!
We gotta get out of here!

1487
01:39:56,850 --> 01:39:58,150
No!

1488
01:40:00,660 --> 01:40:01,710
Hang on!

1489
01:40:04,560 --> 01:40:06,120
Their rockets are catching up!

1490
01:40:06,190 --> 01:40:08,320
We're gonna catch some of it.
Hold tight.

1491
01:40:09,830 --> 01:40:11,560
There they go.

1492
01:40:21,210 --> 01:40:23,200
Think we'll make it now.

1493
01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:27,480
How many minutes to Moscow?

1494
01:40:27,550 --> 01:40:28,910
Seven minutes, sir.

1495
01:40:29,990 --> 01:40:31,920
Look...

1496
01:40:31,990 --> 01:40:35,620
we have our choice about what altitude
to drop the bombs from.

1497
01:40:35,690 --> 01:40:37,750
It's about the only choice
we do have now.

1498
01:40:39,590 --> 01:40:41,720
Blast gave us enough radiation.

1499
01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:44,270
At best we'd only last
a couple of days.

1500
01:40:46,570 --> 01:40:48,560
So I'm taking her in low.

1501
01:40:49,440 --> 01:40:51,460
When we're over the target...

1502
01:40:52,440 --> 01:40:54,470
climbing to 5,000 feet.

1503
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:58,040
Bombs are set to go at 5,000.

1504
01:41:00,620 --> 01:41:02,080
We'll go with them.

1505
01:41:06,090 --> 01:41:07,080
Okay?

1506
01:41:13,630 --> 01:41:16,690
What the hell.
There's nothing to go home to anyway.

1507
01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:32,080
General Stark, are there any papers
or documents in New York...

1508
01:41:32,150 --> 01:41:36,410
which are absolutely essential
to the running of the United States?

1509
01:41:37,950 --> 01:41:39,280
General Stark?

1510
01:41:40,620 --> 01:41:42,560
No, sir.

1511
01:41:42,620 --> 01:41:45,350
There are
important documents, but...

1512
01:41:45,430 --> 01:41:47,420
none of them
absolutely essential.

1513
01:41:49,360 --> 01:41:51,360
Will there be any warning given?

1514
01:41:52,430 --> 01:41:55,340
A lot of lives could be saved
if people had a few minutes.

1515
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:58,530
On short notice, an alert to a big city
would do more harm than good.

1516
01:41:58,610 --> 01:42:00,630
All you'd produce is panic.

1517
01:42:03,350 --> 01:42:04,330
What about this?

1518
01:42:15,560 --> 01:42:16,920
Maybe...

1519
01:42:18,060 --> 01:42:20,250
Maybe he doesn't know
his wife is there.

1520
01:42:22,130 --> 01:42:23,460
He knows.

1521
01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:31,830
Gentlemen, we are wasting time.

1522
01:42:34,040 --> 01:42:36,140
I've been making
a few rough calculations...

1523
01:42:36,210 --> 01:42:38,540
based on the effect
of two 20-megaton bombs...

1524
01:42:38,610 --> 01:42:41,310
dropped on New York City
in the middle of a normal workday.

1525
01:42:42,650 --> 01:42:45,420
I estimate the immediate dead
at about three million.

1526
01:42:45,490 --> 01:42:48,580
I include in this figure those buried
beneath the collapsed buildings.

1527
01:42:49,660 --> 01:42:51,720
Wouldn't make any difference,
Admiral Wilcox...

1528
01:42:51,790 --> 01:42:54,230
whether they reached
a shelter or not.

1529
01:42:54,300 --> 01:42:56,290
They would die just the same.

1530
01:42:57,300 --> 01:43:00,530
Add another million or two
who'll die within about five weeks.

1531
01:43:02,970 --> 01:43:07,410
Are immediate problem would be the joint
one of fire control and excavation.

1532
01:43:07,480 --> 01:43:10,240
Excavation not of the dead.
The effort would be wasted there.

1533
01:43:11,380 --> 01:43:14,140
Even though there are no irreplaceable
government documents in the city...

1534
01:43:14,220 --> 01:43:16,950
many of our largest corporations
keep their records there.

1535
01:43:18,090 --> 01:43:20,280
It will be necessary to...

1536
01:43:23,120 --> 01:43:25,620
rescue as many
of those records as we can.

1537
01:43:32,330 --> 01:43:34,330
Our economy depends on this.

1538
01:43:40,410 --> 01:43:42,400
Our economy depends on this.

1539
01:43:49,520 --> 01:43:51,580
"And the Lord said," gentlemen...

1540
01:43:53,220 --> 01:43:55,710
"'he who is without sin...

1541
01:43:55,790 --> 01:43:57,780
let him cast the first stone."'

1542
01:44:07,470 --> 01:44:08,600
Sir?

1543
01:44:12,270 --> 01:44:14,270
May I have a drink, please?

1544
01:44:25,220 --> 01:44:27,210
How'd you ever get to be
a translator, Buck?

1545
01:44:27,290 --> 01:44:29,280
You don't seem
the academic type.

1546
01:44:31,090 --> 01:44:34,120
I guess I've got
this talent for languages, sir.

1547
01:44:35,760 --> 01:44:37,860
I hear a language once,
I pick it right up.

1548
01:44:38,970 --> 01:44:40,400
I don't even know how.

1549
01:44:42,440 --> 01:44:44,630
They found out
about it in the army.

1550
01:44:44,710 --> 01:44:46,640
You sound sorry they did.

1551
01:44:46,710 --> 01:44:48,730
Oh, no.
Very interesting job.

1552
01:44:51,580 --> 01:44:53,910
I mean, sometimes.

1553
01:44:55,050 --> 01:44:57,080
Well, you did
a good job today, Buck.

1554
01:44:58,750 --> 01:44:59,810
Thank you, sir.

1555
01:45:00,820 --> 01:45:03,260
All I did was repeat what he said.

1556
01:45:03,330 --> 01:45:06,260
You didn't freeze up.
Another man might have.

1557
01:45:08,700 --> 01:45:10,690
You're the one who didn't, sir.

1558
01:45:15,240 --> 01:45:18,030
I wonder what it's like out.
Looked like rain before.

1559
01:45:20,310 --> 01:45:22,800
Radio said it would clear
by the afternoon.

1560
01:45:29,180 --> 01:45:30,450
The premier, sir.

1561
01:45:31,790 --> 01:45:33,010
Yes, Mr. Chairman.

1562
01:45:37,230 --> 01:45:38,660
Mr. President...

1563
01:45:41,460 --> 01:45:43,620
I have ordered
our long-range missiles...

1564
01:45:43,700 --> 01:45:45,690
to stand down from their alert.

1565
01:45:48,900 --> 01:45:51,460
Only that part of our defense...

1566
01:45:51,540 --> 01:45:53,840
that has a chance
of shooting down your bomber...

1567
01:45:55,010 --> 01:45:57,070
is still active.

1568
01:45:57,150 --> 01:45:59,880
We do not think
we have much of a chance.

1569
01:46:01,320 --> 01:46:02,310
I know.

1570
01:46:04,650 --> 01:46:07,520
And yet, this was nobody's fault.

1571
01:46:07,590 --> 01:46:09,110
I don't agree.

1572
01:46:10,460 --> 01:46:12,480
No human being did wrong.

1573
01:46:14,260 --> 01:46:16,320
No one is to be blamed.

1574
01:46:16,400 --> 01:46:18,260
We're to blame, both of us.

1575
01:46:18,330 --> 01:46:20,930
We let our machines
get out of hand.

1576
01:46:22,540 --> 01:46:25,440
Still, it was an accident.

1577
01:46:25,510 --> 01:46:29,380
Two great cities may be destroyed,
millions of innocent people killed.

1578
01:46:29,440 --> 01:46:32,310
What do we say to them, Mr. Chairman?
"Accidents will happen"?

1579
01:46:32,380 --> 01:46:33,850
I won't accept that.

1580
01:46:37,720 --> 01:46:39,580
All I know...

1581
01:46:39,650 --> 01:46:42,150
is that as long
as we have weapons...

1582
01:46:42,220 --> 01:46:44,350
All I know is that men
are responsible.

1583
01:46:44,430 --> 01:46:46,550
We're responsible
for what happens to us.

1584
01:46:47,660 --> 01:46:49,720
Today we had
a taste of the future.

1585
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:52,430
Do we learn from it,
or do we go on the way we have?

1586
01:46:52,500 --> 01:46:56,560
What do we do, Mr. Chairman?
What do we say to the dead?

1587
01:46:59,670 --> 01:47:01,670
I think, if we are men...

1588
01:47:02,940 --> 01:47:04,380
we must say...

1589
01:47:05,780 --> 01:47:07,710
this will not happen again.

1590
01:47:09,120 --> 01:47:11,640
But do you think it possible...

1591
01:47:11,720 --> 01:47:13,740
with all that stands
between us?

1592
01:47:13,820 --> 01:47:16,380
We put it there, Mr. Chairman,
and we're not helpless.

1593
01:47:16,460 --> 01:47:19,020
What we put between us,
we can remove.

1594
01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:24,560
- Mr. President?
- Yes, Jay.

1595
01:47:25,730 --> 01:47:29,290
I can hear the sound of explosions
from the northeast.

1596
01:47:29,370 --> 01:47:31,800
The sky is very bright,
all lit up...

1597
01:47:49,490 --> 01:47:51,520
Put me through
to General Black.

1598
01:48:04,140 --> 01:48:05,660
Yes, Mr. President.

1599
01:48:07,880 --> 01:48:09,710
Yes, Mr. President?

1600
01:48:10,850 --> 01:48:12,780
Moscow's been destroyed.

1601
01:48:13,780 --> 01:48:15,770
Drop your bombs
according to plan.

1602
01:48:17,420 --> 01:48:18,680
Yes, sir.

1603
01:48:28,560 --> 01:48:31,190
You've all been briefed on the mission,
so there's nothing more to say.

1604
01:48:33,400 --> 01:48:35,430
I have only one last order.

1605
01:48:36,870 --> 01:48:42,400
Nobody else is to have anything to do
with the dropping of the bombs.

1606
01:48:44,750 --> 01:48:49,340
Repeat: I will fly the plane
and release the bombs.

1607
01:48:52,190 --> 01:48:54,310
The final act is my own.

1608
01:48:54,390 --> 01:48:57,450
On course, sir.
Approaching target.

1609
01:48:59,990 --> 01:49:02,120
Count down from ten.
Give me the signal.

1610
01:49:07,070 --> 01:49:08,870
Ten, nine...

1611
01:49:08,940 --> 01:49:10,870
eight, seven...

1612
01:49:10,940 --> 01:49:12,870
six, five...

1613
01:49:12,940 --> 01:49:14,880
four, three...

1614
01:49:14,940 --> 01:49:16,770
two, one.

1615
01:49:16,840 --> 01:49:17,810
Mark.

1616
01:49:24,550 --> 01:49:26,490
General Black!

1617
01:49:26,550 --> 01:49:29,280
Katie...
The dream...

1618
01:49:30,630 --> 01:49:32,020
The dream!

1619
01:49:35,230 --> 01:49:36,700
The matador.

1620
01:49:38,570 --> 01:49:39,830
The matador!

1621
01:49:41,640 --> 01:49:43,130
The matador.

1622
01:49:45,810 --> 01:49:47,140
Me!

1623
01:49:48,210 --> 01:49:49,400
Me.