Deterrence Page #12

You made a choice that your ego will

not allow you to back off from.

Taylor... if you bomb...

Baghdad, we're all next.

I understand you're afraid. Everyone's

afraid. The whole world is afraid.

I'm asking you to believe

me that it's gonna be okay,

not because I am telling

you to but because...

It's the truth.

Sir, the b-2 spirit has acknowledged

receipt of the presidential order.

You're asking too much. I have a son

in New York. It's heading due east...

I have a daughter.

Tracey, right?

Dylan! I love my child no

less than you love yours.

He's gonna be five!

- Please trust me.

- We have an Iraqi launch...

In tripoli.

We now have two more launches, sir.

What's the e.T.A. Of the detonation in

Baghdad? Six minutes and twenty seconds.

And the e.T.A. Of the tripoli? We now

have eight more Iraqi launches, sir.

E.T.A. Of the tripoli launch.

17 minutes in Rome, sir.

Okay, so that's 12 Iraqi launches thus far?

Yes. No...

No, we now have...

Sir, we have confirmed the launching of

a Lancelot missile, target position...

Sir, it's coming in on NORAD.

That's not far from where we are.

Sir, a.P.C.S have arrived at your position

to get you to safety and handle casualties.

- What about the other American cities?

- Washington, D.C.,

Miami and New York.

I would not be overly concerned

about those cities, sir.

Our spacecom at Peterson should

be able to deal with them.

- And what about our position?

- Sir, we don't have the air defense capacity...

To actively engage the Lancelot.

We don't have the capacity?

Sir, no one anticipated...

That we'd have to defend ourselves

against our own technology.

Isn't that terrific foresight.

Once the missile enters space,

we lose our lock on it,

and we can't regain lock until...

The a.P.C. Outside your position is

far safer than where you are, sir.

I'll be staying inside, general.

No, you won't.

Mr. president, allow us

to escort you outside.

I'm staying inside with these brave people.

You're the president.

You have to go into the a.P.C.

If I asked you to wait...

In the a.P.C.,

what would you do?

- I wouldn't go. I'm not the president.

- Excuse us a second.

You have to trust what I told you outside,

what Paul told me on his deathbed,

as fantastic as it sounded.

It was insane. He was a great

president until the end.

In the end, he was a hallucinating

fool hooked on painkillers.

Sir, Israeli db-12s

destroyed one of the icbms.

Yeah!

Yeah. All right.

Sir, stratcom is reporting less than five minutes

from Baghdad. Stay here. Be a f***in' hero.

General, who's in the b-2?

Their names, you mean?

Yes, their names.

What are their names?

Jeter and meyers, commanders both.

Can you patch me through to them?

It won't be secure, sir.

I understand. Patch me through. Yes, sir.

Sir, stratcom is now

latched onto the b-2.

It is approximately

two minutes from position.

One of us will have one hell of an

"I told you so" when this is over,

Gentlemen, please give

your attention to the president.

Sir, these are commanders jeter and meyers.

Commanders.

Mr. president.

It's a privilege. You

fellas hanging in there?

Yes, sir, we are.

Hell of a job you got picked for.

A hell of a job.

More people have walked the moon

than have done what we must.

So, I guess that's why we get the big money.

Yeah, well,

you've...

You've got to know...

You're serving a greater cause for mankind.

- Right, sir.

- Eleven minutes and thirty seconds, sir.

All of the missiles appear one minute

to thirty seconds behind your e.T.A.

Sir, less than one minute from target.

- Where you men from?

- Kennebunk.

Meyers is from Hawaii. We were

classmates at the university of Maine.

- We played football together.

- Yeah. Year of the national championship?

A little late for that, actually.

Sir?

Yes.

Sir, meyers and I have thought, and,

we don't know how we're feeling about this.

You're going to be okay, son.

Eleven minutes to detonation

on your position, sir.

You just have to remember one thing.

You're not doing this, I am.

Yes, sir. It's an argument

I've heard before.

Eight seconds to Baghdad, sir.

Men don't go on this kind of mission,

and, well, meyers and I have talked, and we

figure we're just horses with broken legs.

You're good men. Good luck to you both.

Three, two...

- We've reached target, sir.

- Sir, the b-2 has arrived.

Sir, stratcom now confirms the detonation...

Of a 100-megaton

nuclear weapon...

Ten minutes e.T.A...

On your position, sir.

Ladies and gentlemen,

ibs satellites now confirm...

A gigantic explosion over Baghdad.

We cannot clarify

the nature of this explosion.

However, our earliest indications

seem to establish...

That, in fact, a nuclear

weapon has been dropped...

On that Iraqi capital.

This was just a few minutes ago.

Sir, it's incredible what's going on here.

Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, ibs

satellites are monitoring the activity...

Over the Iraqi capital.

We do have a partial image from Baghdad

that was cut off in mid-explosion.

Here it is.

Eagle leader, Secure.

Okay. Okay.

Ladies and gentlemen, ibs

satellites have now latched on.

Can we get the satellite images on the air?

Okay, as you can see, ladies and gentlemen,

these are, indeed, hostile warheads...

Iraqi warheads that are

in flight at this time.

These are warheads confirmed to have

originated from the locations...

Provided by the Iraqi spokesman, that

is, the Iraqi ambassador, Mr. Omari.

This fool is gonna create a

panic the world has never seen.

There's a lot to sort out,

and we're doing so in real time.

Our nuclear expert,

Daniel golan, is on the line...

Calling from our satellite

surveillance center.

- Daniel.

- Gerry, from our vantage point,

it's clear that at least

22 missiles are in flight.

Our trajectories indicate bombs

targeting New York City,

pensacola,

Washington, D.C.,

and NORAD in Colorado.

There are several European

cities targeted as well.

Australia is also projected.

Do you have any estimate on the arrival

of any of these weapons, Daniel?

Well, they've all been in flight for a while.

Many of the weapons are tomahawks.

The one headed to NORAD

appears to be a Lancelot.

We should, of course,

point out that NORAD...

Is within 40 Miles of the

president's current position.

Okay, Gerry, we've just gotten word.

A warhead has landed in Athens.

It's landed on a small building, and

there are not yet any casualty reports,

but Gerry, we can report no detonation.

Of course, there will be casualties

associated with the impact.

Gerry, we now see there is no detonation

of the bombs landing in Djibouti.

Well, this is remarkable.

Daniel, give me a second while we go

to Sylvia Charles in Tokyo. Sylvia.

Gerald, the bombs presumably headed for

Tokyo have landed in the sea of Japan.

More importantly, another bomb has

landed in the park in Hiroshima.

There's no detonation. It's

absolutely incredible, Gerry.

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