[Applause] all [Applause] spe [Music] for laen she'll wake yourself up get your break no time the meeting starts at 10:00 don't worry about it they always have coffee there they go fly there I check out one of the trailers that way I can get back when I want what you work to today Shing I get close for the boys go so first need any money I cash a check I had the dream again all ends at the same place I guess that's just as well sometime I'm going to see that Mador find out who he is when I do that's it that's the end of me don't talk like that now it's only a dream maybe I ought to resign what could would that do it'll make the dream go away I'm sure of that they're connected ktie the dream and and what I'm doing sometimes I feel the only way I can make it disappear is is to give it all up to resign but you can't resign you can't give up your whole life you're my life too you're the boys maybe I have to choose or maybe it's too late Warren don't go skip the meeting tell them my wife insists I go sh shopping with her I'll skip the shopping could have lunch together we haven't done that in months a little French restaurant with wine this one special the new secretary is going to be there they're even holding it in the war room to show how up to dat we are could do with the day off in the middle of the week that's a moral we can go out to her dinner I'll be back by then if I can get a sitter you got me you can had anything I don't know what I'd do without you you wouldn't do very well there's no chance of that is not at [Music] all [Music] two hours ago you said 100 million dead now you say 60 million I say 60 million is perhaps the highest price we should be prepared to pay in a war what's the difference between 60 million dead and 100 million 40 million some difference are you prepared to say the saving of 40 million lives is of no importance you missed the point Professor the saving of those 60 million lives is what's important Bas facts Mr Foster we're talking about War I say every war including thermonuclear war must have a winner and a loser which would you rather be in a nuclear war everyone loses War isn't what it used to be still the resolution of Economic and political conflict oh what kind of resolution with a 100 million dead have to be 100 million even 60 same as a thousand years ago sir when you also had Wars it wiped out whole peoples the point is still who wins and who loses the survival of a culture a culture with most of its people dead the rest dying the food poisoned the air unfit to breathe you call that a culture yes I do Mr Foster I am not a poet I a political scientist who would rather have an American culture survive than a Russian one but what would it be like I mean really like who would survive who would survive it's an interesting question I would predict convicts and file clerks the worst convicts those deep down in solitary confinement and the most ordinary file clerks probably for large insurance companies because they would be in fireproof rooms protected by tons of the best insulator in the world paper and imagine what will happen the small group of vicious criminals will fight the army of file clerks for the remaining means of Life the convicts will know violence but the file clerks will know organization who do you think will win it's all hypothesis of course but fun to play around with and time to go home I didn't mean to hold for so long I don't usually come to a supper body and talk right through the breakfast nonsense Professor we were fascinated just hope we didn't keep you from your work not at all I've got a 10:00 meeting at the Pentagon plenty of time to get home and change you must come again Professor gell with your wife this time I'd be delighted I'm Elsa wolf we were introduced before dinner I'd like you to take me home you'll have to give me directions just stay on this [Music] [Music] road you could joke about the convicts and F clerks because you know there won't be any survivors will there not many none none at all that's the beauty of it I've heard nuclear war called a lot of things Miss wolf never beautiful people are afraid to call it that but that's what they feel the beauty of death don't patronize me what else but that are you selling professor we all know we're going to die but you make a game out of it a marvelous game that includes the whole world you make it seem possible it is possible even probable you make death an entertainment something that can be played in a living room as good a place as any no no there's an even better place turn in there this where you live don't joke why not I'm the Joker I make death into a game for people like you to get excited about I watched you tonight you'd love making it possible wouldn't you you'd love pressing that button what a thrill that would be knowing you have to die to have the power to take everyone else with you the mob of them with their plans their little hopes born to be murdered turning away from it closing their eyes to it and you could be the one to make it true do it to them but you're afraid so you look for the thrill someplace else and who better than a man who isn't afraid I'm not your kind a sir Logan should be on his way in tell him I checked out the new computer I'll be back on duty before he leaves check it out again with him yes sir I'll be in my quarters if he wants me yes sir oh sir yes a telephone message for you they want you to call right back said it was urgent line please hello yes I got the message why do you think I'm calling well where did you get the money no no no I'll come myself going into town Aon that's the address I'll be there about half an hour and then I'll come you back to the base that's right better button up before the general gets here yes sir General Ban's office am in SLO no sir generally just left damn it I need him where'd he sign out to Concklin you know where that is yes sir it's on the way to the base I'll get on over there I'll pick him up myself Ammon thank you this is the house General you sure this is it you sure there's not another Street by this name oh no sir I lived in Omaha all my life I know this city like the back of my hand don't bother getting out spending the money I send you on this you my mother once more who the hell are you yeah I'm General ban I'm looking for Colonel Casio he gave this address oh sure now General that's a gentleman hon to have you son always speaks well of you sorry to bother you Colonel we have some money expected VIPs we have to show around yes sir I'll be right along why don't you come in G thank you I I just take a drop now and then the boy here he gets a little shited I'm ready sir damn not no it's that Congressman Ras cob the one who's been nosing around the bases Washington wants us to put his mind that these he's on one of those committees yes sir Gordon nap will also be there to look over some of that equipment his company makes he'll be on our side anyone looks crossy at his stuffy goes up like a rocket sir time was when I'd say goes up like a balloon times change yes siry that was no rough lost half our group Regensburg was the worst one for us I never flew to be 17 only 24 good airplane 24 at least you knew you were flying the airplane not the other way around like with these things you still have to fly The Vindicator gry last of a lot Flynn don't kid yourself about that the next airplanes they won't need men you'll be too old anyway after us the machines we're halfway there already look at those kids remember the Cru had on a 24s Jews Italians all kinds you could tell them apart they were people these kids you open them up you find they run on transistors yeah they're good kids I tell you sure you know they're good at their jobs but you don't know them how can you get a different crew every time we go up that's a policy gry eliminates the personal Factor everything's more complicated now reaction times faster can't depend on people the same way who do you depend on all right gentlemen the sky always you know something Billy I like the personal Factor [Music] [Music] those are Vindicator bombers of the Strategic Air Command on routine Patrol each one of those planes carries Four Blood Hound air-to-air missiles armed with nuclear warheads those are for use against attacking enemy Fighters planes in addition of course each plane carries two 20 Megaton hydrogen bombs designed to detonate over enemy targets at any given moment night or day flights of those airplanes are in the air in case of any surprise attack on our bases you can see some of the other groups just who controls them we do this is the nerve center Mr rascom this room all these machines you see are constantly receiving information from all over the world and above it Mr naps company did the electronic work on the Argo satellite would you like to see what his phot in right now this picture you're about to see Mr ascob is being taken Now by a camera 300 mil in the sky traveling at 20,000 mph and you give us tighter scale on this General Kel those are the rocket sites from 300 M up I'm impressed get it sharper than that before long be able to see the people not just the machines we'll show you the hair on their head Mr rasca I suppose they're doing the same to us well you can see for yourself fin let's take a look at the Russian submarines in the Pacific there the western coast of the United States Hawaiian islands and those are Russian Subs not close nearest is about 50 Mi off San Francisco I'd say international waters nothing we can do except keep an eye on it well that's too damn close what's it doing there scanning us the way we do them is it armed we have instruments so good Mr ascob they can tell the difference between a whale breaking wind and that sub blowing its tanks no argument General I'm sure we've got the best of M in bu we're very proud of what we do here sir you ought to be Colonel money's well spent Mr ascob I don't doubt it for a minute and you don't have to snow me General my committee doesn't deal with Appropriations only with how the Appropriations are spent well you see it all around you pretty impressive isn't it well I tell you the truth these machines scare the hell out of me I don't like the idea that every time I take off my hat some thing up there knows I'm losing my hair I want to be damn sure that thing doesn't get any ideas of its own I see what you mean Mr rascar but that's a chance you take with these systems who says we have to take that chance who voted who the power to do it this particular way I'm the only one around here got elected by anybody nobody gave me that it's in the nature of Technology machines are developed to meet situations then they take over they start creating situations not necessarily there's always the chance you said so yourself oh we have checks on everything Mr ascob checks and counter checks yeah but who checks the Checker where's the end of the line Joe who's got the responsibility president he can't know everything is going on how can he it's too complicated if you want to know that's what really bothers me the only thing that everyone can agree on is that no one's responsible something wrong gem UFO sighted near Hudson's Bay sir what you're seeing gentlemen is unidentified flying object picked up by our radar until we get positive identification we regard it as hostile what do you do about it well we've gone to condition blue which is our lowest form of Readiness at the same time we've informed those Vindicator bombers that you saw on the air before they will now start fly toward their fail safe points fail safe fixed points in the sky on the perimeter of the Soviet Union which are changed from day to day the planes will fly to those points and orbit until they get a positive order to go in and if they don't get that order they return to their normal Patrols in short Mr ascar we can't go to war except on an Express order how do they get that order by radio yes and through a box we call the fail safe box aboard each plane which can only be activated at the express order of the president oh he has to tell not directly no his voice can be imitated you know he just gives the order and the rest is done electronically no one can interfere with the fail save box Mr ascob no one all those new blips you see are fighter planes going after the unidentified object cash you tight scale please something pretty cool about this General does it happen often oh about six times a month probably an airliner off course is with then it's something else that means it's at 30,000 ft going at 525 mph on a compass heading of 196 headed right for Detroit 7 minutes to fail oh normal procedure Mr ascob we start an automatic countdown at this point it's very unlikely the bombers won even reach their fail save points i' say happens about one time in 20 we usually identify the disturbance well before that 6 minutes to fail safe what have you got there Blacky another UFO for a dollar commercial plane or a flock of birds plane of course you want to give me odds I uh read your memo on counterforce credibility I don't think go chell's going to discuss that today you mean you think I should lay off why open a can of peas got discuss it one of these days dark this whole policy of Overkill it makes no sense piling up bombs and we already have okay wagy just uh not today good morning Mr secret secr won't you sit over there thank you everyone here General Stark yes sir all right Professor GHA I see we have an alert to supplement our discussion unfortunately we settled a question of accidental War last week so we can't make use of it today today the subject is limited War it is not theoretical on it depends the kind of weapons we use where we locate them how we use them in short our entire military so is limited War possible can we confine the exchange of nuclear weapons to military targets alone or must War lead inevitably to the destruction of cities it must why the object of war is to inflict maximum damage on the enemy destroy his ability to resist in the last war both sides could have used bacterial Warfare they didn't it wouldn't have been decisive can you be sure well maybe people still could get used to the idea of killing civilians suggest you take that up with the civilians of London Hamburg Dresden or Tokyo killed by the thousands in bombing raids I omit Hiroshima Nagasaki since those actions belong more properly to World War 3 than World War II I still don't see how we could restrict the war we could come to a mutual agreement with the Russians uh to strike only at missile bases what if the missile bases were near the cities they would have an incentive to move the melet they might take such an offer as a sign of weakness on our part could be worth a try they've got as much to lose as we have we're talking about the wrong subject we've got to stop War not limited that uh is not up to us General black we're the ones who know most about it you're a soldier Blackie you carry out policy you don't make it don't kid yourself St the way we say a war can be for is making policy if we say we can fight a limited war with nuclear weapons all we do is let everyone off the hook it's what they want to hear we can just keep on doing what we're doing and nobody really gets Hur well you can fight a limited war and you know it on my part I'm not so sure there's no such thing as a limited War anymore not with hydrogen bombs there isn't once those bombs start to drop you won't be able to limit a damn thing are you uh advocating disarmament General BL I don't know well it's the logic of your opposition peculiar reversal press would be interested the military man who is the Dove and the civilian who is the hawk we're going too fast things are getting out of hand can you be more specific General we're all trying to make war more efficient that's our job and we're succeeding we now have the capacity to blow up the whole world several times over which does not mean we must do it we won't be able to stop from doing it that's the logic of your position Grill we're setting up a war machine that acts fter than the ability of men to control it we're putting men into situations that are getting too tough for men to handle then we must toughen the men suppose they launch a first strike against us then we retaliate and we're all finished oh would you prefer that only we were finished we have to prepare we're preparing we've got to slow down I disagree we have got to speed up naturally that means taking risks but Our intention is always to minimize those risks of course we can only control our own actions our concept of limited war is based on an equal rationality on the part of the Russians it also presupposes there will be no accidents on either side but suppose for an example that unidentified flying object was one of their 50 Megaton missiles that had gotten loose by mistake what could be done how could they prove it was really an accident would it make any difference if they could even if we believe them should we still think in terms of limiting our response or should we hit them back with everything we have it's G down what happened to it Casio let's go to condition yellow it's dropped below the level at which our radar can pick it up that's all you went to the next state of Readiness well that's sop Mr mat could be a commercial plane about to crash or an enemy plane taking evasive action naturally we prepare for the worst 2 minutes to fail safe what are those planes following the bombers General Fighters C part of condition yellow from now on with tanker refueling they'll follow the bombers as far as they go what comes after condition yellow green and then red but we've never gone to Red yet red Means War not an air breather what does that mean our jet planes suck air through their engines our warning system can pick up the turbulence this creates could be a commercial plane has lost power no turbulence would be created rocket off course maybe are 1 minute to fail the Russian Rockets are coming in low where our radar can't take it up could it be that could be anything how do you find out down will is tracking to L 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 all groups at fail save point right on the top that's fine Colonel Casio yes sir go to condition green yes [Music] sir P please to keep Orting until we get positive identification of the UFO they do that anyway sir that's their orders well tell them again I'll have to ask you gentlemen to leave now sorry that is an order Mr rcub got the wrong customer General the way I see it we could be at war in just about 2 minutes they can't get me back to my family in that time so I'm staying right here and see what happens there's no place for you here those bombs go up General there's no place for me anywhere so you want me out of here you better crawl those I think it's coming up again can't wait any longer sir give me tight scale 3 4 5 primary that's all right we'll see that's it gentlemen sorry we alarmed you contact all the planes and have them resume their normal Patrol yes sir Colonel Grady yes what is it Thomas what's the longest you ever stayed at these fail safe points longest I have stayed was uh 3 minutes but I can tell you it seems like three years it's your first time yes sir nervous no sir it's only natural you know I was just calculating fuel sir how's the group holding formation solivan uh right in offit sir even number six is tucked in oh Flynn half man half bird well thank you very much must say what's that check okay here send in a K13 Something Blue in The Fault indicator sir we're replacing the whole unit the F indicator is our Master Control tells us if something goes wrong in any of these other components something go wrong no sign of we'll know as soon as they replace the unit s fail safe box there must be some mistake check Omaha can't get through colel interference what do you mean you can't get through what kind of interference I don't know sir it's a kind I never heard before we try another band try all of [Music] them can't get through colonel must be trying to keep us from getting our go signal well they're too late for that request permission to authenticate on secondary Channel permission granted order confirmed request permission to verify sir commission [Music] granted code sequence correct for today sir signal is go we will now both open our operational [Music] ORS ready for approach and penetration order sir they you say these alerts happen half a dozen times a month how about that not usually so dramatic we rarely get to the fail safe Point well I'd be a nervous right well so would I if I had to make a speech in Congress oh General ban that blip up there at 10:00 it's headed into Russia and that is why some people Advocate a return to man bombers for a first strike retaliation rather than missiles they are slower and they give more time for evaluation and Analysis the Rockets have the defects of their virtues they are too quick they allow too little time for thought now I find this point of view oldfashioned by the very nature of Modern Warfare the put that on Polar projection [Applause] [Music] Cassie get me the president I'm buck the translator they sent for me I see your identification sir the bucket says you have a small scar on your left wrist can I see it please oh yeah dog B me when I was a kid yes sir hello Buck how's your rushing today I'm fine sir I guess good we may need it hang on Jenny it's a long way down nothing to the newspapers nothing not yet anyway call the vice president and tell him what's up you don't know what to do and second thought we'd better tell the press something had Joe tell him a surgeon but not a Bone Breaker so far and off the Record no leaks any leaks on this the guy and his paper are dead now and forever you got that I'll tell Joe in just those words now then who's with the Pentagon briefing today I'm want them in on this Secretary of Defense Chiefs of Staff that Professor grella they like so much he's giving the is Blacky there there a general black that's Blackie I'm glad he's there we went to college together got a brain says what he thinks okay Jenny that's all for now get to work and tell them to turn up the air conditioning it's hot as hell down here or far enough down maybe it is Hell know what's happened Buck no sir one of our Vindicator group's got a wrong signal took off to M mcow we've got to stop it easier said than done but we've got a little time not much but a little so relax easier head and done soon if things get really hot I might have to use the direct phone of the Kremlin that's where you'll come in but let's hope we don't get that far I hope not General ban from Omaha sir put him on group six is now about 200 M past fail safe Mr President we still can't make contact you know what went wrong no sir we do not why can't you raise them by radio we don't know for sure sir we've tried all frequencies we just can't make contact why I don't know we had a flash on the board just before it happened and the fault indicator blew out at the same time the Russians may be jamming their reception with some new device we know nothing about why would they do that is it customary no sir but it's possible in other words it's possible the fail safe mechanism might be giving them a ghost signal at the same time they can't reach you for positive confirmation it's possible it's not probable but is it possible yes sir all right now if we do regain radio contact will the bombers respond to an order to return if we can reach them within the next 5 minutes after that their orders are to disregard any verbal command if I talk to them even for me your voice can be imitated by the enemy sir our men have been drilled in that once they're beyond a certain point they're not not to trust any verbal transmission what's our next step then General if we follow standard procedure we already have fighter planes in the air The Next Step would be to order the fighters after the bombers to raise them visually and divert them from their course but if the bombers don't respond then what the fighters would be ordered to shoot them down who gives that order you do sir thank you General I'll be back to you help me Mr Swinson in the [Music] Pentagon twon here Mr secretary I have a decision to make it's my decision and I'll make it but I want the advice of you and your people and I need it fast the President says he may have to order our fighters to shoot down group six he wants our opinion I oppose it sir on the grounds that it's premature our planes have not yet reached Soviet territory they're still hundreds of miles away we've got to do it and fast right now before it's too late might be too late anyway those Fighters swung away from the bombers when they got the all clear they've been flying in opposite directions they're faster than the vindicators not that much faster I'm not sure they can catch up in time they can go to after burners that'll increase their speed and use up their fuel we'll never be able to get back we'll go down in the ocean we've got to try it suppose they do catch up why do they have to attack can't they signal our men have been trained to expect anything from the enemy even sending up his own fighter planes disguised as ours they're good men we've seen to that if their orders are attacked the only way you're going to stop them is to shoot them down we've got no alternative this minute the Russians are watching their boards trying to figure out who they're up to if we can't convince them it's an accident which we're trying to correct by any means we're going to have something in our hands that nobody bargain for and only a lunatic once Mr President it is our opinion that the fighters should be ordered in thank you General ban please yes Mr President the fighters are to overtake the vindicators and if necessary shoot them down sir it will be necessary I know that general order of them men Colonel order the fighters to attack group six don't have a prayer of catching them sir that is an order for it's the Arctic Ocean they'll go down in general they'll freeze to death before they get their shoots off get on the horn and give that order every second you wait takes them farther away killing them General and they haven't got a chance this is fighter direction we are in voice communication with tangle Lael one you can talk to them on channel 7 single side man I tell them in code or in the clear in the clear tangle aable one this is Colonel Casio at ultimate one this is tangle aable one I read you 5 by five group six has flown through the fail safe point and is on an attack course towards Moscow it is a mistake repeat it is a mistake go to afterburners and overtake and attack group six go to afterburners and overtake and attack group six you all hear that order take the vindicators who are they kidding what we got is a 50 mph here gentleman they're halfway to mosco already you heard the man we go to after burners and you what to run this airplane spit by the time we run out of gas they'll only be a th000 miles away man that's organization all right cut the chatter we're wasting time on the mark go to afterburners 5 4 3 2 1 mark Al I alert airc rescue sir no no point bring up the fighters on the board in tight scale yes sir beautiful [Music] fighters on their way sir thank you but let's hope this all blows over in the next few minutes but if it doesn't we're going to get to know each other very well I want you to listen to every conversation I have try to get to know how I think might come in handy yes how General ban sound to you sir you sound worried confident scared well not not scared um a little worried I guess Ban's an oldtime flyer but he's not afraid of all this new equipment if he's worried I'm worried you know Mr swensson Secretary of Defense I read about him sir you won't be able to tell much from his voice he's hot as a rock but we listen to him if he gives advice we take it yes yes sir when you put the war conference room of the Pentagon and general ban and omo on a conference line with me yes sir ready Sir Mr Swanson yes Mr President if our Fighters have to shoot down the vindicators the worst is over for us anyway I want your people now to consider what we do if they can't shoot them down I'm putting you on the intercom so everything you say can be heard here and in Omaha General ban has Mr nap of Amalgamated electronics and Congressman rascar with him they have my permission to listen in say anything they want right sir gentlemen we've got four questions to answer not a hell of a lot of time first what happened second what do we do about it third what are the Russians going to think of all this and fourth what are they going to do about it please keep the discussion to those points mechanical failure that's what happened a double mechanical failure do you know the odds against that sir maybe someone went berserk it doesn't matter something failed a man a machine it was bound to happen that did maybe we'll never know why or what it doesn't matter now Mr seary yes General buger Mr nap here knows as much about electronic gear as anyone he'd like to say something the more complex an electronic system gets the more accident prone it is sooner or later it breaks down what breaks down a transistor blows a condenser burns out sometimes they just get tired like people uh Mr nap overlooks one factor the machines are supervised by humans even if the machine fails the human being can always correct the mistake I I wish you were right the fact is the machines work so fast they are so intricate the mistakes they make are so subtle that very often a human being just can't know whether a machine is lying or telling the truth maybe this time there wasn't any failure maybe the Russians have come up with a way to mask the real position of group six maybe group six is flying back to the states right this minute and what's on the board Northern Lights maybe a group of Soviet PLS up there for just that reason to con convince us that we've accidentally launched obom group against them for what purpose as an excuse to retaliate if they wanted to do that they wouldn't need an excuse they simply attack this way they've made us commit a group of our fighter planes our first line of defense made us kill our own men I disagree with Colonel casio's analysis I think we have to assume that it is our accident and not their plan I go along with you General yes Anders a report on what the Russians have in the air sir seven bomber groups is that unusual no that's normal for them about like us what kind of course are they on normal Patrol patterns inside their own borders they do have a large number of fighters in the air sir abnormally large almost half their fighter strength they're having the same problem with group six that we had with the UFO they don't know what it is why it's there who it belongs to my guess is that they know all about group six they saw it fly to the fail safe Point they've seen that happen plenty of times they know the procedure so far no sweat and when they saw it fly past they send up their fighter planes just in case I don't think they'll take any action unless their border is crossed agreed that puts it up to the fighters in my opinion they will take no action at all they're not going to just sit there Professor I think if Obamas get through the Russians will surrender who's this professor Mr secretary what's he doing there Professor gella is a civilian adviser to the Pentagon General will you explain your statement Professor the Russian aim is to dominate the world they think that communism must succeed eventually if the Soviet Union is left reasonably intact they know that a war would leave the Soviet Union utterly destroyed therefore they would surrender but suppose they feel they can knock us off first they know we might have a doomsday system missiles that will go into action days even weeks after a war is over and destroy an enemy even after that enemy has already destroyed us maybe they think that even capitalists aren't that insane to want to kill after they themselves have been killed these are Marxist Fanatics not normal people they do not reason the way you reason General black they are not motivated by human emotions such as rage and pity they are calculating machines they will look at the balance sheet and they will see they cannot win then you suggest doing what nothing nothing the Russians will surrender and the threat of Communism will be over forever that's a lot of hogwash don't kid yourself there'll be Russian generals who will react just as I would the best defense is a good offense they see trouble coming up take my word for it they'll attack and they won't give a damn what said Mr secretary I am convinced that the moment the Russians know bombs will fall on Moscow they will surrender they know that whatever they do then they cannot Escape destruction don't you see sir this is our chance we never would have made the first move deliberately but group six has made it for us by accident and we must take advantage of it history demands it we must advise the president not to recall those planes they're flaming out he's firing anyway there goes number two Mr President the fighters have not succeeded they've gone down into the scene what are the chances of our bombers getting through to Moscow we've made the calculations a 100 times what they have in the way of defense is what our planes are capable of doing the vindicators fly so fast the Russians won't be able to use all their defensive operators one are two of the bombers will get through thank you Buck I'm going to talk to the Soviet Premier now you'll translate what he says to me he'll have his own translator telling him what I say but I want something more from you yes or whatever I can do I think the premere will be saying what he means he usually does but sometimes there's there's more in a man's voice than in his words and there words in one language that don't carry the same weight in another you want you follow me I think it's very important the premier and I understand each other I don't have to tell you how important so I want to know not only what he's saying but what you think he's feeling any infection of his voice any tone any emotion that adds to his words I want you to let me know yes sir I'll do my best I know you will Buck it's all any of us can do and don't be afraid to say what you think don't be afraid all is too big for you Buck it's big all right but it still depends on what each of us does history lesson number one I'll talk to Moscow now [Music] it's the premier Sir Mr chairman this is the president of the United States do you hear me clearly fine Mr President how are you Mr chairman I'm calling you on a matter of great urgency I hope it turns out to be a small matter but it's the first time it's happened and if it's misunderstood it could be does it have to do with the aircraft we have detected flying towards Russia yes Mr chairman I suppose it's another of your off reconnaissance flights Mr President we have warned you again and again that there's constant flying of armed aircraft this is a mistake serious mistake I say it's a mistake very well tell me tell me the mistake a group of our bombers each loaded with two 20 Megaton bombs is flying towards your country we shall watch with great interest while you recall them so far we have been unable to recall them are are the planes being thrown by crazy men we're not sure it it it might be a mechanical failure all I can tell you is that it's an accident it's not an attempt to provoke War it's not part of a general attack how do I know you do not have hundred of other planes coming in so low our radar cannot pick them up because I hope to prove to you that it's an accident that we take full responsibility that we're doing everything we can to correct it that right go on you must have seen that we sent fighter planes to shoot down the bombers American fighters to shoot down American bombers that is correct and you gave that order I did how do I know the planes were not simply diving to a low altitude to escape our radar on our plotting board the action could only be interpreted as planes out of control you have the same equipment we do what did it tell you it did not tell us what is in your mind Mr President I'm telling you that and you asked me to believe you you must believe me you ask for belief at a curious time if we don't trust each other now Mr chairman there may not be another time uh we saw we saw your planes fall into the sea I wanted only to hear your explanation and whether it was done at your own order it is a hard thing to order men to their death is it not it is someone's trying to persuade him it's a trick they want him Strike Back At Once Soviet airspace has still not been violated Mr President but if it is we will be forced to shoot down your bombers and then we will come to full alert with all our missiles and planes I understand that I hope you're able to shoot down our bombers but I urge you not to take any steps that cannot be recalled you know we must protect ourselves you also know that if you launch missiles we must do the same if that happens there'll be very little left of the world I understand is there anything more you wish to say if I may make a suggestion I will arrange to open the conference line between our headquarters in Omaha and your similar officials in the Soviet Union we will do all we can to help you we do not need your help we are perfectly capable of defending our country as you wish but I must tell you what my people tell me no matter what you do at least one of the planes will get through to the Target what is the target Moscow I'll call you back when I see what our Fighters do to how's the formation hauling Salin everyone in line sir how far from the border 2 minutes they better start spreading out number six plane on the lead Flynn right here go to work Roger project the Soviet fighter planes give me tight scale on the Russian border what does it they've crossed the border well Buck we into Soviet territory the technical state of War now exists give me enemy defense performance this is enemy defense performance desk General Bogan how do you read the situation our number six plane carrying defensive equipment and in devices has moved into the lead all those new little blips you see are decoys that have have the Russian fighter has launched any missiles yet not yet you'll see their missiles on your scope as Tiny dots that appear suddenly and then disappear ah there go some of them now you can see they're confused by the decoys they're still not grouping where the real planes are can you wipe the decoys off the screen so that we see just their planes and ours there you are G they still going after the decoys our boys aren't making it easy for them good they picked up one of our planes now get them get [Applause] them this isn't some damn football game remember that that plane's in trouble it looks like the Soviets have a very slow missile with a much longer range than we thought they had a slowness of speed made our missile calculate there must be drones of decoy so it ignored them and went after the fighters we can compensate for that the adjustment is minor the premier is on the line sir yes Mr chairman we have only a little time left Mr President is was this different sir uh it's not angry subdued how should we use this time sounds sorrowful and sad what luck are your Fighters having luck no luck at all we have shut down only one of your bombers what about the other five maybe yes maybe no your masking devices are better than we had thought hundreds of targets have appeared on the radar uh perhaps they are decoys perhaps they are real bombers many of my experts are convinced that they are real they urge me to release our own bombers at once why don't you then good question why haven't you counterattacked I am gambling that you are sincere my generals are not so happy with me about this as as I'm sure your generals are not so happy with you but there is time for common sense I must have proof Mr President neither of us wants War but we must be convinced that this is a uh truly a mistake that your intentions are not hostile and that there is a chance for peace Mr chairman let me ask you something just before our planes took off from their failed safe point there was a white flash on our plotting board we think this is connected to some mechanical failure that might have activated their go signal could this have been caused by your radio interference they're arguing with him against it telling him not to answer the information is too secret was it your jamming that kept us from getting through to our planes I do not know about this jamming I think he does we cannot be responsible for your mechanical failures is it possible could it have happened you asked for proof Mr chairman this could be it arguing back and forth don't trust you have to trust you it's a trick we're paying for our mutual suspicions Mr chairman I realize that but the wall must be broken we have to break it down now we can't afford not to trust each other we jammed your radios with a special device even I did not know about I suppose I must be very proud of our scientists it was more effective than anyone dreamed but why why this time we have computers like yours they computed that this time your alert might be real on what grounds probability the law of averages they have their own logic it is not it is not human but it is positive so we listen will you lift the jamming so I can talk to the group Commander would he return on your command there's a chance and give that order General borgan yes Mr President let me through to group six fast right away sir what's the group Commander's name col Jack Grady sir does he have a wife I'll see sir turkey1 this is Ultimate one can you hear me turkey1 this is Ultimate one can you hear me yes sir he does find her if I can persuade you maybe she can yes sir turkey 1 this is Ultimate 1 can you hear me turkey 1 this is Ultimate 1 can you hear me I have an important message turkey 1 can you hear me me turkey 1 can you hear me turkey 1 can you hear me this is Ultimate one can you hear me they stop jamming us this is turkey 1 turkey 1 I am not authorized to receive messages colel Grady this is the president of the United States the mission you are flying has been triggered by a mechanical failure it is a mistake I order you and the other planes to return to your base at once do you hear at once Colonel Grady I repeat this is the president I can no longer receive tactical Alterations by voice I know that but but you're telling me I've been specifically ordered not to do damn it Grady this is the president you still answer Mr chairman I think it would be wise for you to remove yourself from Moscow so that you'll be out of danger that will allow us to continue negotiations even if the worst happens I have made those arrangements unfortunately we cannot remove Mas it remains here open to your bombs and uh when it is destroyed it's people dead because there is no time to evacuate them where should we negotiate Mr President uh shall I come to Geneva hat in hand begging for peace I offered you help you refused it I offer it again we will help you shoot down the planes set up your conference line I'll come back on the phone when I'm a safe distance from Moscow will you activate the element one red One Touch phone please can we stop them sir [Applause] fire fire before he cuts off one of those slow ones Cel not clad offer I'll have you taken out of this room so down water go excuse me every minute we wait works against us now Mr secretary now is when we must send in a first strike we don't go in for sneak attacks we had that done to us at Pearl Harbor and the Japanese were right to do it from that point of view we were their mortal enemy as long as we existed we were a deadly threat to them their only mistake was that they failed to finish us at the start and they paid for that mistake at Hiroshima you're talking about a different kind of War exactly this time we can finish what we start and if we act now right now our casualties will be minimal you know what you're saying do you believe that communism is not our mortal enemy you're justifying murder yes to keep from being murdered in the name of what to preserve what even if we do survive what are we better than what we say they are what gives us the right to live then what makes us worth surviving grella that we are ruthless enough to strike first yes those who can survive are the only ones worth surviving fighting for your life isn't the same as murder where do you draw the line once you know what the enemy is how long would the Nazis have kept it up General if every Jew they came after had met them with a gun in his hand but I learned from them General black oh I learned you learned too well Professor you learned so well that now there's no difference between you and what you want to kill yes Mr President contact our ambassador to Moscow also the Soviet delegate to the United Nations hook them onto my line when the Soviet Premier comes back on the phone put us all on together yes Mr President is the touch phone open between Omaha and the Soviet command headquarters yes sir already keep it open General black black yes Mr President Blackie remember your Old Testament a little remember the story of the sacrifice of Abraham old what's his name used to use it in Chapel at least twice a year I remember sir keep it in mind the next few hours Blacky I need your help get out to Andrews field right away orders will be waiting for you there yes sir Blackie are Catherine and the kids in New York yes sir I may be asking a great deal of you I do whatever you say good luck Blackie General ban yes Mr President I've activated the touch phone between you and the Soviet command will you test it please yes sir this is General Bogan Strategic Air Command Omaha I am the translator from Comm marshi sends his the same to him our reception is 5x5 how do you read us we read you 5x five one moment please Mr President went through to them thank you General will you put me on your public address system so everyone can hear what I say I want the Russians to be able to hear as well yes sir ready sir gentlemen this is the president of the United States whatever orders I give to American Personnel are to be considered direct orders from the commanderin-chief they are to be obeyed fully without reservation and at once we must do everything we can to prevent our planes from attacking Moscow the Soviet Premiere has behaved as I believe I would under similar conditions he has delayed retaliation I think he believes this is an accident but we must convince him and his chief advisers that it is I therefore order every American to cooperate fully with Soviet officers in shooting down our invading planes you are to give whatever information they request any hesitation any withholding of information can have the most tragic consequences I cannot emphasize this too strongly are there any questions gentlemen I expect you to conduct yourselves as Patriots and I wish you success the missiles on these bombers have both infrared and radar Mi abilities a number of our fighter planes have been destroyed by a missile that seems to home not on the infrared Source but on the radar Transit is it possible General Casio will answer your question that's a question that is a direct order water K just a moment please major handle General Hogan sergeant underevil you're back a Man on Fire Control aren't you yes sir do our Vindicator missiles have both infrared and radar seeking capacity yes sir loud and clear theyve got to know we on the level it it it has both capacities sir can the radar seeking mechanism be overloaded by increasing the strength of the signal tell them yes sir it can be overloaded but by increasing the power output and and sliding through radar frequencies as fast as possible what happens is the firing mechanism reads the higher amperage as proximity to the Target and detonates the Warhead thank you General Hogan it will be back to you that's all sergeant what does it mean we've told them how to blow up our air-to-air missiles and with them our ples I Pi this up Thomas send out the code for the timate flight plan we're going down to the floor they're trying to avoid the fighters by going too low for their radar I'm sorry General I I don't know what happened I was just I just couldn't do it it was like a I don't know a fit or something like get it who could have expected this situation General General I I think this is all a trap they they wanted this to happen we know they've been trying to file up our fail safe signal I I think that we should tell the president it's a trap they're just using the time to get their missiles ready and fly their bombers into position we have no evidence of that they could be flying their bombers in the grass you could have fired missiles already and put them up in the orbit of known sat where we couldn't detect them remember we computed that problem we decided satellites could be used to mask missiles we computed a lot of problems I'm not reporting anything I don't know for sure I think we should recommend a full strength attack that is not our decision the Pentagon they don't know what we know they're not soldiers anymore they're politicians we don't care what happens to us make a mistake that's politics send out men to be killed J for what out some Mazy deal to sell us out save the world save us save our country before they destroy it with their stinking politics order a first strike General put an end to it once and for all you have the power you can do it you are talking treason stop it now or I'll have you put under arrest General Bogan this is Marshall Yi yes can you give us the longitude and latitude of the three planes left in the air we can do that but we can give you the altitude the signals we're getting now are too distorted will you please give us the position of the three planes we can fly Fighters at various altitudes can do gentlemen I am taking over command of this post at the specific order of the president of the United States he has long been aware that General Bogan is mentally unbalanced and has warned me to observe him closely the negotiations with General Bogen has been conducting With the Enemy are the acts of a lunatic by the direct authority of the president I Now command you to take all orders Colonel we got orders Colonel you make a they'll kill you you're a traitor you're worse than anybody you wear the uniform you have men under your command you're in the field but you want them dead before they find you out you want me dead I saw it this morning when you found me with those people I'm better than you a you're betraying us all you're making a mistake I'm better than you are you're traitor you're betraying us [Music] all Marsh yes sir I am now prepared to give you the longitude and latitude of our bombers in accordance with your request I was aware of your difficulty General Bogan we have had such problems ourselves I await your information me General we better have a doctor they've got another one sit down anyway that was a bad KN anyone could crack under the stream well if you ask me he was a boy on the edge he was a good soldier the Soviet Premier is coming back on the line sir the Ambassador and the Soviet delegate are already on have they been told yes sir as you said good Jay where are you on the top floor of the embassy in Moscow Mr President where are you Mr Lov in the UN building in New York I suppose I suppose there is a reason for your Ambassador and comrade lento to join us there is Mr chairman then let's get on with it his voice is fir or F like he's made up his mind in uh in a few minutes the the bombs may be falling I have brought our forces to a condition of full Readiness unless we can satisfy one another I must release those forces so what do you propose Mr President do your people think there is still a chance of Bringing Down the bombers there is always a chance but I am asking you what if they cannot um what will you do uh have you made a decision yes it's my decision and I take full responsibility Mr Swenson are you on the line yes Mr President General ban yes sir this is what will happen if even one of the bombers gets through it will drop two 20 Megaton bombs on Moscow Jay yes Mr President you might hear the sound of the engines just before the bombs drop maybe not in any case you'll hear the defensive missiles going off right after that the bombs will explode I'm told that what we will hear at this end will be a high shrill sound that will be the ambassador's phone melting from the heat of the fireball when we hear that sound the Ambassador will be dead you understand Mr Ambassador you're to stay exactly where you are yes Mr President he's got to attack is this your proposal to sacrifice one American for 5 million Russians no no no listen to me listen I've ordered a Vindicator bomber into the air from Washington in a few minutes it will be flying over New York City it is carrying two 20 Megaton bombs the moment I know that moscow's been hit I will order that plane to drop its bombs it will use the Empire State Building for Ground Zero when we hear the shriek of Mr lent's phone melding we will know that he is gone and with him New York only man that of got he can't do it what else can he do I don't know any other way Mr chairman unless unless you feel the offer itself is enough showing our intentions I wish would you think it enough if Russian bombers were flying against New York could you accept only my good intentions no I believe this was an accident but I also believe your action is the only way out I ask you to believe I wish it not were not so yes well we can still hope I won't have to take that action how close to Target 14 minutes here how many planes left just us and number six friend still here gry what's your condition slight wing damage from ordinary flag that's all speed down to 1350 drag even how many of your decoys do you have left how many do you need well I got the bombs you don't I want you to take some of those Fighters off my tail well do Billy yeah I depend on you General ban will you explain this when you work one of your planes has just appeared again that's standard procedure marshy that's our number six plane the decoy plane it's just trying to draw your Fighters away from our other plane carrying the bombs I see carries only defensive equipment you don't have to worry about it thank you we shall try for a killer the nikkas so scatter your forces Marshall you don't have time for that I tell you it doesn't carry any bombs you don't have to worry about it you're letting our other plane get through I told you there has been uh marki has collapsed it appears well I don't know General Conan is now in command Logan what's happened marki said his fight is after a plane that carried no bombs that means our number one plane will almost certainly get through the Marshall realized that it was too much for General ban this is general con do you have the remaining plane on your screen no sir we do not we cannot see in our radar and it is flying so fast our anti-aircraft is useless I must assume the plane will get through yes I intend to focus all our remaining Rockets and the estimated path of the plane and fire them all off at once our hope is to set up a thermonuclear barrier that nothing can penetrate that might work it's worth a chance you speak English very well General I was Le's on your headquarters in London during the War I was stationed right outside of London yes I know the Air Force did you like London very much so did I the great cities are those where one can walk with I would walk all the time in London wherever you turn there's history General are you in Moscow now no I was ordered to leave cuz you're it's a hard day yes a hard day goodbye my friend goodbye my friend Colonel Grady sir what is it Thomas the infrared indicator shows a large number of ground air Rockets ignited ahead of us they should show on the scope anytime now what do you know about those Rockets they're no different from ours sir designed to home in on heat producing engines like an airplane they can't be aiming them at us we're too low they bow themselves up what are they doing with them General benan yes they found Mrs grd she's standing by Mr President we have Grady's wife can we get through to him if he follows procedure he'll contact us when he gets within range of the target those are his orders so that we know how to evaluate the strike well he's been following orders so far yes sir keep your fingers crossed Thomas yes sir would their Rockets follow missiles too I don't see why not a missile produces heat I think I know what they're going to do explode the rockets on top of us hope to knock us down with a blast they can do it too but how many air air missiles we have left two okay now the minute you see those Rockets ignite on the scope you fire our missiles and guide them for maximum elevation straight up straight up yeah maybe our Rockets will follow the missiles explode too high to hurt us yes sir car gry we're in range we have to report in watch that scope Elman one this is turkey one Al one this is turkey 1 can you hear me Lady this is General ban keep receiving no matter what you hear do you understand keep receiving Jack Jack this is Helen Jack it's Helen do you recognize my voice it's not a trick it's me Jackie you must turn back you must drop those bombs do you hear me is it really your wife they started their Rockets fire one you know what I'm saying Jack fire two keep them at at least 2500 ft above the Rockets yes sir Jack there's no war we're fine you must turn back they're at 18,000 go go 19ck 20,000 are following them give them as much boost as you can higher the better I've never lied do you have I I ,000 couldn't no matter what anybody did to me I wouldn't please you've got to believe me 80,000 ft 90 100 going down 130 40 we better get 6 please answer me 170,000 Jack do you answer me please you can't trust it sir we got to get out of here no hang on the Rockets are catching up you're going to catch some of it it's a whole tight there they [Applause] go it now how many minutes to ask 7 minutes so look we have our choice about what altitude to drop the bombs from it's about the only choice we do have now last gave us enough radiation best we'd only last couple of days so I'm taking him low when we're over the target climbing at 5,000 ft boms is at the go at 5,000 I'll go with them okay what the hell there's nothing to go home to anyway General Stark are there any papers or documents in New York which are absolutely essential for the running of the United States General Stark No Sir there are important documents but none of them absolutely essential be any warning given a lot of lives could be saved if people had a few minutes on this short notice an alert to a big city would do more harm than good all you'd produce is panic what about this maybe maybe he doesn't know his wife is there he knows gentlemen we are wasting time I've been making a few rough calculations based on the effect of two 20 Megaton bombs dropped down New York City in the middle of a normal work day I estimate the immediate debt at about 3 million I include in this figure those buried beneath the collapsed buildings not make any difference Admiral Willcox whether they reached a shelter or not they would die just the same and another million or two who will die within about 5 weeks now our immediate problem would be the joint one of Fire Control and excavation excavation not of the Dead the effort would be wasted there but even though there are no Irreplaceable government documents in the city many of our largest corporations keep their records there it will be necessary to rescue as many of those records as we can our economy depends on this eony depends on this and the Lord said gentlemen he who is without sin Let Him cast the first stone sir may I have a drink please how'd you ever get to be a translator Buck you don't seem the academic type I guess I've got this talent for languages sir I hear language once I pick it right up I don't even know how what they found out about it in the Army sound sorry they did no no very interesting job I mean sometimes well you did a good job today Buck thank you sir all I did was repeat what he said he didn't freeze up another man might have you're the one who didn't sir wonder what it's like out looked like rain before may I said it would clear by the afternoon the premier sir yes Mr chairman Mr President I have ordered our long range missiles to stand down from their alert only that part of our defense that has a chance of shooting down your bomber he's still active we do not think we have much of a chance I know and yet this was nobody's fault I don't agree no human being did wrong no one is to be blamed we're to blame both of us we let our machines get out of hand it was an accident two great cities may be destroyed millions of innocent people kill what do we say to them Mr chairman accidents will happen I won't accept that all I know is uh that as long as we have weapons all I know is that men are responsible we're responsible for what happens to us today we had a taste to the Future do we learn from it do we go on the way we we have what do we do Mr chairman what do we say to the dead I think if we are men we must say this will not happen again but do you think it possible with all it stands between us we put it there Mr chairman and we're not helpless what we put between us we can remove Mr President yes Jay I can hear the sound of explosions from the Northeast the sky is very bright all lit up put me through to General black yes Mr President VY yes Mr President mcow has been destroyed drop your bombs according to plan been briefed on the mission so there's nothing more to say I have only one last order nobody else has to have anything to do with the dropping of the boms reped I will fly the plane and release the bombs final active SP on course sir approaching Target countdown from 10 give me the signal 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 one mark dinner black Katie a dream the dream The Matador The Matador The Matador me me [Music] [Applause] get [Applause] [Applause] spee
