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What's going on?
Confidence level?
Gather the NSC plus five and kick it to CiC
comms - immediately.
What the hell is it?
Early warning satellites detected multiple
Russian launches.
What?!
- Salnikov can't be that crazy.
He said he'd get us back after Syria.
By launching nukes?
- AGENT: Cover Falcon!
Cover Falcon!
CIA's psych eval of Salnikov indicated volatility
and mood swings.
We just killed - 300 Russians in Aleppo.
Mr.
President, I have STRATCOM.
Put them on speaker, Captain.
Yes, sir.
Colonel McPherson is on the line.
McPherson?
- General Bradley is off duty, sir.
NSC plus five is being patched in.
Colonel McPherson, what's the sitrep?
Mr.
President, SSPARS is now tracking more than
400 Russian ICBMs heading for US
mainland, striking in about 20 minutes.
Colonel, is there anything indicating a possible
intrusion in the network, anything at all?
No, sir. Every indication is that we are under attack,
Mr. President.
Sir, I recommend initiating Night Watch continuity
of government protocol immediately.
Do it.
Major, open the football.
if you don't launch before the Russian missiles
hit, they could take out our silos, - severely
limiting our response.
We'd lose an entire leg of the nuclear triad.
There has to be a better option than just
responding in kind to an all-out Russian attack.
It'd almost certainly bring on a nuclear winter,
killing everyone on the planet.
We have to think about that.
HILL: Nuclear winter is a theory, Russell.
The president has to execute what we've been
gaming and planning for decades.
There's only one way to fulfill your constitutional
obligation, Mr. President
It's Major Attack Option One.
Does anyone disagree with that assessment?
Do we have the Pentagon War Room on the line?
Yes, Mr.
President.
General Nelson here.
Ready to authenticate the nuclear launch codes
on your call.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (ALARM BLARING) - Here
we go.
Not a drill.
Unlock launch keys.
I agree.
Alpha. Zulu. X-Ray.
I have a match.
Authentication confirmed.
I agree.
Belt up.
Insert launch keys.
Mid-course phase.
Warheads detaching.
Tracking more than 2,000.
Oh my God
No, no! Abort! Abort!
General Bradley
Now!
Send a new EAM aborting it!
Just do it!
Oh, for God's sake.
- Abort, abort.
Launch actions.
Hands on keys.
I agree.
Fire on my mark.
Three, two, one, mark.
- (ALARM BEEPING)
I just had a nice chat about organic juicing
with my son in Santa Barbara, who I thought
I was never going to see again, so this better
be good, Gordon.
As you recall, sir, STRATCOM recently upgraded
its systems; hardware, software
Are you telling me this was some kind of glitch?
No, sir.
Apparently, General Bradley wanted to run
a stress test on this new equipment to see
how it would interact with personnel.
- A stress test?
- So he had his CTO upload a simulation on
the backup system at the end of his shift
last night because he wasn't gonna be in for
the weekend.
God forbid he be inconvenienced.
DALTON: A simulation?
I almost ended the world because of a simulation?
Bradley didn't inform staff.
He wanted them to believe it was real.
Planned on running it when he got back in,
but the primary system unexpectedly failed
and the backup came on seamlessly, so no one
in the GOC knew.
Pretty convincing simulation.
I think that's the point.
Fire Bradley.
I've already relieved him of duty, sir.
HILL: Didn't we change our procedures on simulations
after '79?
Supposed to be on computers off-site.
Like many four stars, Bradley doesn't lack
confidence.
He ignored the rule.
And what if General Nelson didn't have clearance
issues?
Would Bradley have arrived in time to abort
the launches?
No, sir.
It slowed the order by almost two minutes.
We were down to the wire in a few of our launch
control centers.
So the world was saved by a philandering general.
Maybe his mistress should get a medal.
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