1 00:00:41,950 --> 00:00:45,681 For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating... 2 00:00:45,753 --> 00:00:48,187 among high-level Western leaders... 3 00:00:48,256 --> 00:00:52,124 that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be... 4 00:00:52,193 --> 00:00:55,890 the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. 5 00:00:55,964 --> 00:00:59,866 Intelligence sources traced the site of the top-secret Russian project... 6 00:00:59,934 --> 00:01:02,630 to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland... 7 00:01:02,704 --> 00:01:06,105 below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. 8 00:01:06,174 --> 00:01:11,510 What they were building or why it was located in a remote, desolate place... 9 00:01:11,579 --> 00:01:13,843 no one could say. 10 00:03:44,132 --> 00:03:45,599 General Ripper, sir. 11 00:03:45,666 --> 00:03:47,600 Group Captain Mandrake speaking. 12 00:03:47,668 --> 00:03:49,659 This is General Ripper speaking. 13 00:03:49,737 --> 00:03:51,932 - Yes, sir. - Do you recognize my voice? 14 00:03:52,006 --> 00:03:54,406 I do, sir. Why do you ask? 15 00:03:54,475 --> 00:03:56,238 Why do you think? 16 00:03:56,310 --> 00:03:59,905 I don't know, sir. We spoke just a few moments ago, didn't we? 17 00:03:59,981 --> 00:04:05,214 You don't think I'd ask unless it was pretty damned important, do you? 18 00:04:05,286 --> 00:04:06,719 No, I don't. 19 00:04:06,788 --> 00:04:08,983 Let's see if we can stay on the ball. 20 00:04:09,924 --> 00:04:12,518 Has the Wing confirmed holding at their fail-safe points? 21 00:04:12,593 --> 00:04:15,426 Yes, sir. The confirmations have just come in. 22 00:04:15,496 --> 00:04:19,125 Very well. Now, listen to me carefully. 23 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,998 The base is being put on condition red. 24 00:04:22,069 --> 00:04:24,299 I want this flashed to all sections immediately. 25 00:04:24,372 --> 00:04:27,705 Condition red. Jolly good. Keeps the men on their toes. 26 00:04:27,775 --> 00:04:30,039 This is not an exercise. 27 00:04:31,112 --> 00:04:32,977 Not an exercise? 28 00:04:34,682 --> 00:04:39,312 I shouldn't tell you this, but you're a good officer and have a right to know. 29 00:04:39,387 --> 00:04:41,321 It looks like we're in a shooting war. 30 00:04:42,323 --> 00:04:47,283 - Oh, hell. Are the Russians involved? - That's all I've been told. 31 00:04:47,361 --> 00:04:52,128 It came in on the red phone. I'm gonna follow orders and seal this base tight. 32 00:04:53,234 --> 00:04:56,761 Now, I want you to transmit Plan R... 33 00:04:56,838 --> 00:04:58,772 R for Robert, to the Wing. 34 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:02,241 - Plan R for Robert. - Is it that bad, sir? 35 00:05:02,310 --> 00:05:04,801 - Looks like it's pretty hairy. - Yes, sir. 36 00:05:04,879 --> 00:05:06,904 Plan R for Robert. 37 00:05:06,981 --> 00:05:10,314 Last and possibly most important... 38 00:05:10,384 --> 00:05:14,616 I want all privately owned radios to be immediately impounded. 39 00:05:14,689 --> 00:05:18,625 They might be used to issue instructions to saboteurs. 40 00:05:18,693 --> 00:05:21,560 As I previously arranged, Air Police will have lists of all owners. 41 00:05:21,629 --> 00:05:25,622 I want every one collected without exception. 42 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:27,998 After you've done that, report back to me. 43 00:05:55,129 --> 00:05:57,791 In order to guard against surprise nuclear attack... 44 00:05:57,865 --> 00:06:01,301 America's Strategic Air Command maintains... 45 00:06:01,369 --> 00:06:05,499 a large force of B-52 bombers airborne 24 hours a day. 46 00:06:05,573 --> 00:06:10,476 Each B-52 can deliver a nuclear bomb load of 50 megatons... 47 00:06:10,544 --> 00:06:15,572 equal to 16 times the total explosive force of all the bombs... 48 00:06:15,650 --> 00:06:20,212 and shells used by all the armies in World War II. 49 00:06:20,288 --> 00:06:23,416 Based in America, the Airborne Alert Force... 50 00:06:23,491 --> 00:06:26,289 is deployed from the Persian Gulf to the Arctic Ocean. 51 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,158 But they have one geographical factor in common. 52 00:06:29,230 --> 00:06:33,189 They are all two hours from their targets inside Russia. 53 00:07:53,214 --> 00:07:56,206 Major Kong, I know you'll think this is crazy... 54 00:07:56,283 --> 00:07:59,946 but I just got a message from base over the C.R.M. 114. 55 00:08:01,022 --> 00:08:04,981 It decodes as Wing attack Plan R. R for Romeo. 56 00:08:08,095 --> 00:08:12,361 Goldie, did you say Wing attack Plan R? 57 00:08:12,433 --> 00:08:13,957 Yes, sir, I have. 58 00:08:17,772 --> 00:08:22,471 Goldie, how many times have I told you guys that I don't want... 59 00:08:22,543 --> 00:08:24,477 horsin' around on the airplane? 60 00:08:24,545 --> 00:08:26,809 I'm not horsing around. That's how it decodes. 61 00:08:26,881 --> 00:08:29,543 I've been to one world fair, a picnic... 62 00:08:29,617 --> 00:08:33,485 and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I heard over earphones. 63 00:08:33,554 --> 00:08:35,454 You sure you got today's code? 64 00:08:36,891 --> 00:08:37,983 Yes, sir. 65 00:08:38,059 --> 00:08:40,619 There's gotta be something wrong. 66 00:08:40,694 --> 00:08:43,060 Wait a second, I'm coming back. 67 00:09:17,531 --> 00:09:21,194 Maybe you'd better get a confirmation from base. 68 00:09:21,268 --> 00:09:22,701 Yes, sir. 69 00:09:43,824 --> 00:09:46,418 Major Kong, is it possible this is some kind of loyalty test? 70 00:09:46,494 --> 00:09:50,157 You know, give the go code and then recall to see who would actually go? 71 00:09:50,231 --> 00:09:54,361 Ain't nobody ever got the go code yet. 72 00:09:54,435 --> 00:09:56,835 Old Ripper wouldn't be giving us Plan R... 73 00:09:56,904 --> 00:09:59,532 unless them Ruskies had already clobbered Washington... 74 00:09:59,607 --> 00:10:01,905 and a lot of other towns with a sneak attack. 75 00:10:01,976 --> 00:10:03,238 Yes, sir. 76 00:10:03,310 --> 00:10:05,801 Major Kong, message from base confirmed. 77 00:10:10,651 --> 00:10:13,017 Well, boys, I reckon this is it. 78 00:10:14,088 --> 00:10:17,353 Nuclear combat toe-to-toe with the Ruskies. 79 00:10:32,406 --> 00:10:37,275 Boys, I ain't much of a hand at making speeches. 80 00:10:38,712 --> 00:10:42,011 But I got a fair idea that something doggone important... 81 00:10:42,082 --> 00:10:44,073 is going on back there. 82 00:10:44,151 --> 00:10:48,019 I've got a fair idea of the kind of personal emotions... 83 00:10:48,088 --> 00:10:51,546 that some of you fellows may be thinking. 84 00:10:51,625 --> 00:10:54,355 Heck, I reckon you wouldn't be human beings... 85 00:10:54,428 --> 00:10:59,024 if you didn't have pretty strong personal feelings about nuclear combat. 86 00:10:59,099 --> 00:11:02,034 I want you to remember one thing. 87 00:11:02,102 --> 00:11:04,866 The folks back home are counting on you. 88 00:11:04,939 --> 00:11:07,271 And by golly, we ain't about to let them down. 89 00:11:08,609 --> 00:11:11,407 Tell you something else. 90 00:11:11,478 --> 00:11:16,472 If this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it might be... 91 00:11:16,550 --> 00:11:20,577 I'd say you're all in line for some important promotions... 92 00:11:20,654 --> 00:11:24,454 and personal citations when this thing's over with. 93 00:11:24,525 --> 00:11:27,289 That goes for every last one of you... 94 00:11:27,361 --> 00:11:31,195 regardless of your race, color or your creed. 95 00:11:31,265 --> 00:11:34,826 Now let's get this thing on the hump. We got some flying to do. 96 00:11:48,449 --> 00:11:50,679 Buck, should I get it? 97 00:11:50,751 --> 00:11:52,685 Yeah, you'll have to. 98 00:11:58,626 --> 00:12:00,389 Hello? 99 00:12:00,461 --> 00:12:05,057 Yes, General Turgidson is here, but he can't come to the phone now. 100 00:12:05,132 --> 00:12:07,396 This is his secretary, Miss Scott. 101 00:12:08,535 --> 00:12:10,730 Freddie, how are you? 102 00:12:10,804 --> 00:12:13,068 Fine. And you? 103 00:12:13,140 --> 00:12:17,804 Oh, we were just catching up on some of the general's paperwork. 104 00:12:17,878 --> 00:12:22,508 He's tied up. I'm afraid he can't come to the phone. 105 00:12:23,584 --> 00:12:25,017 Just a minute. 106 00:12:25,085 --> 00:12:28,350 General Turgidson, a Colonel Puntrich calling. 107 00:12:28,422 --> 00:12:30,356 Tell him to call back. 108 00:12:30,424 --> 00:12:35,123 Freddie, the general says could you call back in a minute? 109 00:12:35,195 --> 00:12:37,129 He says it can't wait. 110 00:12:37,197 --> 00:12:40,530 For Pete's-- Find out what he wants. 111 00:12:40,601 --> 00:12:44,503 The general is in the powder room right now. 112 00:12:44,571 --> 00:12:46,835 Could you tell me what it's about? 113 00:12:48,275 --> 00:12:52,371 Just a second. Apparently they monitored a transmission eight minutes ago... 114 00:12:52,446 --> 00:12:54,937 from Burpelson Air Force Base. 115 00:12:56,784 --> 00:13:01,847 Right. It was directed to the 843rd Bomb Wing on airborne alert. 116 00:13:03,624 --> 00:13:07,082 It decoded as Wing attack Plan R. 117 00:13:07,161 --> 00:13:12,827 Well, tell him to call what's-his-name, Base Commander Ripper. 118 00:13:12,900 --> 00:13:14,561 Do I have to think of everything? 119 00:13:14,635 --> 00:13:19,231 The general suggests you call General Ripper, the 843rd base commander. 120 00:13:19,306 --> 00:13:22,707 Oh. All communications are dead! 121 00:13:22,776 --> 00:13:26,177 Bull! Tell him to do it himself. 122 00:13:26,246 --> 00:13:31,183 The general asks if you could possibly try again yourself. 123 00:13:31,251 --> 00:13:35,915 I see. He says he's tried personally several times, but everything is dead. 124 00:13:35,989 --> 00:13:38,753 Even the normal phone lines are shut down. 125 00:13:46,033 --> 00:13:48,866 Fred? Buck. What's it look like? 126 00:13:50,471 --> 00:13:51,904 Yeah? 127 00:13:53,340 --> 00:13:56,332 Well, are you sure it's Plan R? 128 00:13:57,578 --> 00:14:00,274 Huh. What's cooking on the threat board? 129 00:14:00,347 --> 00:14:03,145 Nothing? Nothing at all? 130 00:14:05,319 --> 00:14:07,378 I don't like the look of this. 131 00:14:08,856 --> 00:14:11,484 Tell you what you better do, old buddy. 132 00:14:11,558 --> 00:14:14,721 You better give Elmo and Charlie a blast and bump everything up to condition red. 133 00:14:14,795 --> 00:14:17,355 Stand by the blower. I'll get back to you. 134 00:14:17,431 --> 00:14:19,626 - What's up? - Nothing. 135 00:14:21,201 --> 00:14:24,500 - Where's my shorts? - On the floor. Where are you going? 136 00:14:24,571 --> 00:14:26,334 No place. 137 00:14:26,407 --> 00:14:31,140 I thought I might mosey over to the War Room to see what's doing over there. 138 00:14:31,211 --> 00:14:33,008 It's 3:00 in the morning. 139 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,014 The air force never sleeps. 140 00:14:35,082 --> 00:14:39,018 Buck, honey, I'm not sleepy either. 141 00:14:41,688 --> 00:14:44,486 I know how it is, baby. 142 00:14:44,558 --> 00:14:46,583 Tell you what you do. 143 00:14:47,628 --> 00:14:51,587 You start your countdown and old Bucky will be back... 144 00:14:51,665 --> 00:14:55,226 before you can say "Blastoff!" 145 00:14:56,503 --> 00:15:00,599 Your Commie has no regard for human life, not even his own. 146 00:15:01,775 --> 00:15:05,609 For this reason, men, I want to impress upon you the need... 147 00:15:05,679 --> 00:15:07,772 for extreme watchfullness. 148 00:15:07,848 --> 00:15:11,875 The enemy may come individually or he may come in strength. 149 00:15:11,952 --> 00:15:14,546 He may even come in the uniform of our own troops. 150 00:15:15,522 --> 00:15:18,116 But however he comes, we must stop him. 151 00:15:18,192 --> 00:15:20,956 We must not allow him to gain entrance to this base. 152 00:15:22,496 --> 00:15:26,432 Now, I am going to give you three simple rules. 153 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:30,994 First: Trust no one, whatever his uniform or rank... 154 00:15:31,071 --> 00:15:33,562 unless he is known to you personally. 155 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,507 Secondly: Anyone or anything... 156 00:15:36,577 --> 00:15:41,480 that approaches within 200 yards of the perimeter is to be fired upon. 157 00:15:41,548 --> 00:15:47,180 Third: If in doubt, shoot first and ask questions afterwards. 158 00:15:47,254 --> 00:15:50,621 I would sooner accept a few casualties through accident... 159 00:15:50,691 --> 00:15:54,821 than lose the entire base and its personnel through carelessness. 160 00:15:54,895 --> 00:15:59,025 Any variation on these rules must come from me personally. 161 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:02,933 Now, men, in conclusion... 162 00:16:03,003 --> 00:16:07,064 I would like to say that in the two years... 163 00:16:07,140 --> 00:16:10,940 that it has been my privilege to be your commanding officer... 164 00:16:11,011 --> 00:16:13,946 I have always expected the best from you... 165 00:16:14,014 --> 00:16:17,916 and you have never given me anything less than that. 166 00:16:17,985 --> 00:16:21,352 Today the nation is counting on us. 167 00:16:22,422 --> 00:16:25,255 We are not going to let them down. 168 00:16:25,325 --> 00:16:27,259 Good luck to you all. 169 00:16:57,457 --> 00:16:59,982 Here's the attack profile, sir. 170 00:17:27,754 --> 00:17:30,416 This is your attack profile. 171 00:17:30,490 --> 00:17:33,584 "To ensure that the enemy cannot monitor voice transmission... 172 00:17:33,660 --> 00:17:35,821 or plant false transmission... 173 00:17:35,896 --> 00:17:41,027 the C.R.M. 114 is to be switched into all receiver circuits. 174 00:17:41,101 --> 00:17:44,559 The emergency base code prefix is to be set... 175 00:17:44,638 --> 00:17:47,038 on the dials of the C.R.M. 176 00:17:47,107 --> 00:17:51,669 This will block any transmission other than those preceded by a code prefix." 177 00:17:53,246 --> 00:17:55,407 Stand by to set code prefix. 178 00:17:55,482 --> 00:17:57,950 Roger. Ready to set code prefix. 179 00:17:58,018 --> 00:17:59,883 "Set code prefix." 180 00:18:09,429 --> 00:18:10,862 Code prefix set. 181 00:18:10,931 --> 00:18:12,592 "Lock code prefix." 182 00:18:15,268 --> 00:18:16,701 Code prefix locked. 183 00:18:16,770 --> 00:18:20,262 "Switch all receiver circuits to C.R.M. discriminators." 184 00:18:21,475 --> 00:18:24,706 Switched to C.R.M. discriminators. 185 00:18:24,778 --> 00:18:26,643 "Check auto destruct circuits." 186 00:18:29,950 --> 00:18:31,884 Auto destruct circuits checked. 187 00:18:37,290 --> 00:18:41,693 "Primary target: the I.C.B.M. complex at Laputa. 188 00:18:41,762 --> 00:18:45,994 Target reference: Yankee, golf, tango... 189 00:18:46,066 --> 00:18:48,125 3-6-0. 190 00:18:48,201 --> 00:18:50,135 Thirty megaton nuclear device... 191 00:18:50,203 --> 00:18:54,299 fused for air burst at 10,000 feet. 192 00:18:54,374 --> 00:18:58,868 Twenty megaton nuclear device will be used if first malfunctions. 193 00:18:58,945 --> 00:19:01,607 Otherwise, proceed to secondary target: 194 00:19:01,682 --> 00:19:05,709 missile complex seven miles east of Borchov. 195 00:19:05,786 --> 00:19:09,745 Target reference: November, Bravo, X-ray... 196 00:19:09,823 --> 00:19:12,291 1-0-8. 197 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:17,661 Fused air burst at 10--" Check-- "12,000 feet." 198 00:19:28,975 --> 00:19:32,877 Excuse me, sir. Something rather interesting has just cropped up. 199 00:19:32,946 --> 00:19:35,779 Listen to that. Music. Civilian broadcasting. 200 00:19:37,384 --> 00:19:41,650 I think the Pentagon has given us an exercise to check our readiness. 201 00:19:41,722 --> 00:19:43,713 I think it's taking things too far. 202 00:19:43,790 --> 00:19:46,816 Our fellows will be inside Russian radar cover in about 20 minutes. 203 00:19:46,893 --> 00:19:50,124 Listen. Chock full of stations all churning it out. 204 00:19:51,898 --> 00:19:53,661 - Mandrake? - Yes, sir? 205 00:19:53,734 --> 00:19:57,170 I issued instructions for all radios to be impounded. 206 00:19:57,237 --> 00:20:01,537 You did, and I was in the process of impounding this when I switched it on. 207 00:20:01,608 --> 00:20:05,100 I thought our fellows hitting Russian radar, dropping all their stuff... 208 00:20:05,178 --> 00:20:09,638 I'd better tell you because if they do, it'll cause a stink. 209 00:20:09,716 --> 00:20:13,777 Group Captain, the officer exchange program... 210 00:20:13,854 --> 00:20:17,483 does not give you any special prerogatives to question my orders. 211 00:20:17,557 --> 00:20:21,789 I realize that, sir, but I thought you'd be pleased to hear the news. 212 00:20:21,862 --> 00:20:24,626 After all, let's face it. 213 00:20:24,698 --> 00:20:28,691 We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we have to, do we? 214 00:20:29,669 --> 00:20:33,332 Please sit down. And turn that thing off. 215 00:20:33,406 --> 00:20:34,532 Yes, sir. 216 00:20:34,608 --> 00:20:39,511 What about the planes? Surely we must issue the recall code immediately. 217 00:20:39,579 --> 00:20:42,446 The planes are not going to be recalled. 218 00:20:42,516 --> 00:20:45,383 My attack orders have been issued, and the orders stand. 219 00:20:47,420 --> 00:20:51,584 If you'll excuse me for saying so, that would be to my way of thinking... 220 00:20:51,658 --> 00:20:53,819 rather an odd way of looking at it 221 00:20:53,894 --> 00:20:56,294 If a Russian attack was in progress... 222 00:20:56,363 --> 00:21:00,299 we would certainly not be hearing civilian broadcasting. 223 00:21:00,367 --> 00:21:03,234 - Are you certain? - I'm absolutely positive. 224 00:21:03,303 --> 00:21:06,033 What if it is true? 225 00:21:06,106 --> 00:21:09,132 I'm afraid I'm still not with you, sir, because I mean... 226 00:21:10,710 --> 00:21:13,076 if a Russian attack was not in progress... 227 00:21:13,146 --> 00:21:17,515 then your use of Plan R-- In fact, your orders to the entire Wing-- 228 00:21:24,991 --> 00:21:30,258 I would say, sir, that there was something dreadfully wrong somewhere 229 00:21:31,331 --> 00:21:33,697 Why don't you take it easy, Group Captain? 230 00:21:33,767 --> 00:21:36,429 Please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater... 231 00:21:36,503 --> 00:21:38,937 and help yourself to whatever you'd like. 232 00:21:47,981 --> 00:21:52,077 General Ripper, sir, as an officer in Her Majesty's Air Force... 233 00:21:52,152 --> 00:21:55,417 it is my clear duty under the present circumstances... 234 00:21:55,488 --> 00:22:00,187 to issue the recall code upon my own authority and bring back the Wing. 235 00:22:00,260 --> 00:22:02,251 If you'll excuse me, sir. 236 00:22:10,871 --> 00:22:15,774 Sir, I must ask you for the key and the recall code. Have you got them handy? 237 00:22:15,842 --> 00:22:18,333 I told you to take it easy, Group Captain. 238 00:22:18,411 --> 00:22:20,971 There's nothing anybody can do now. 239 00:22:21,047 --> 00:22:23,481 I'm the only person who knows the three-letter code group. 240 00:22:23,550 --> 00:22:26,110 I must insist that you give them to me! 241 00:22:35,195 --> 00:22:39,188 Do I take it, sir, you are threatening a brother officer with a gun? 242 00:22:40,467 --> 00:22:45,598 Mandrake, I suppose it never occurred to you... 243 00:22:45,672 --> 00:22:49,267 that while we're chatting here so enjoyably... 244 00:22:49,342 --> 00:22:53,210 a decision is being made by the president... 245 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,443 and the joint chiefs in the War Room at the Pentagon. 246 00:22:57,517 --> 00:23:03,114 When they realize there is no possibility of recalling the Wing... 247 00:23:03,189 --> 00:23:07,489 there will be only one course of action open. 248 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,460 Total commitment. 249 00:23:11,731 --> 00:23:16,168 Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? 250 00:23:17,470 --> 00:23:20,166 No, I don't think I do, sir. No. 251 00:23:21,841 --> 00:23:24,867 He said war was too important to be left to the generals. 252 00:23:25,946 --> 00:23:30,542 When he said that 50 years ago... 253 00:23:30,617 --> 00:23:32,585 he might have been right. 254 00:23:32,652 --> 00:23:35,018 But today... 255 00:23:35,088 --> 00:23:38,546 war is too important to be left to politicians. 256 00:23:38,625 --> 00:23:43,085 They have neither the time, the training... 257 00:23:43,163 --> 00:23:46,223 nor the inclination for strategic thought. 258 00:23:49,869 --> 00:23:53,361 I can no longer sit back and allow... 259 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:58,605 Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination... 260 00:23:58,678 --> 00:24:00,305 Communist subversion... 261 00:24:01,781 --> 00:24:05,649 and the international Communist conspiracy... 262 00:24:05,719 --> 00:24:08,586 to sap and impurify... 263 00:24:08,655 --> 00:24:11,988 all of our precious bodily fluids. 264 00:24:18,164 --> 00:24:19,654 Staines, is everybody here? 265 00:24:19,733 --> 00:24:22,224 Mr.President, the secretary of state is in Vietnam. 266 00:24:22,302 --> 00:24:26,261 The secretary of defense is in Laos, and the vice president is in Mexico City. 267 00:24:26,339 --> 00:24:31,299 We can establish contact with them at anytime. The undersecretaries are here. 268 00:24:31,378 --> 00:24:34,472 Right. General Turgidson, what's going on? 269 00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:38,576 Mr.President... 270 00:24:38,651 --> 00:24:42,314 about 35 minutes ago... 271 00:24:42,389 --> 00:24:46,382 General Jack Ripper, the commanding general... 272 00:24:46,459 --> 00:24:48,893 of Burpelson Air Force Base... 273 00:24:48,962 --> 00:24:52,227 issued an order to the 34 B-52s of his Wing... 274 00:24:52,298 --> 00:24:54,425 which were airborne at the time... 275 00:24:54,501 --> 00:24:58,631 as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation Dropkick. 276 00:24:58,705 --> 00:25:03,404 It appears that the order called for the planes... 277 00:25:03,476 --> 00:25:06,843 to attack their targets inside Russia. 278 00:25:06,913 --> 00:25:11,145 The planes are fully armed with nuclear weapons... 279 00:25:11,217 --> 00:25:14,744 with an average load of 40 megatons each. 280 00:25:14,821 --> 00:25:19,281 The central display of Russia will indicate the position of the planes. 281 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,991 The triangles are their primary targets. 282 00:25:24,064 --> 00:25:26,999 The squares are their secondary targets. 283 00:25:28,068 --> 00:25:33,370 The aircraft will begin penetrating Russian radar cover within 25 minutes. 284 00:25:35,575 --> 00:25:38,874 General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. 285 00:25:38,945 --> 00:25:44,212 I understood I was the only one to order the use of nuclear weapons. 286 00:25:45,351 --> 00:25:49,447 That's right, sir. You are the only person authorized to do so. 287 00:25:49,522 --> 00:25:53,822 And although I hate to judge before all the facts are in... 288 00:25:53,893 --> 00:25:57,522 it's beginning to look like General Ripper exceeded his authority. 289 00:25:57,597 --> 00:26:02,466 It certainly does, far beyond the point I would have imagined possible. 290 00:26:02,535 --> 00:26:06,164 Perhaps you're forgetting the provisions of Plan R, sir. 291 00:26:06,239 --> 00:26:08,070 Plan R? 292 00:26:09,476 --> 00:26:13,037 Plan R is an emergency war plan... 293 00:26:13,113 --> 00:26:15,638 in which a lower echelon commander may order... 294 00:26:15,715 --> 00:26:18,843 nuclear retaliation after a sneak attack... 295 00:26:18,918 --> 00:26:22,410 if the normal chain of command has been disrupted. 296 00:26:22,489 --> 00:26:25,390 You approved it, sir. You must remember. 297 00:26:26,926 --> 00:26:30,760 Surely you must recall, sir, when Senator Beaufort made... 298 00:26:30,830 --> 00:26:33,799 that big hassle about our deterrent lacking credibility. 299 00:26:33,867 --> 00:26:38,600 The idea was for Plan R to be a sort of retaliatory safeguard. 300 00:26:38,671 --> 00:26:40,662 A safeguard? 301 00:26:40,740 --> 00:26:44,005 I admit the human element seems to have failed us here. 302 00:26:44,077 --> 00:26:47,478 But the idea was to discourage the Ruskies from any hope... 303 00:26:47,547 --> 00:26:52,143 they could knock out Washington, and yourself, as part of a sneak attack... 304 00:26:52,218 --> 00:26:56,416 and escape retaliation because of lack of proper command and control. 305 00:26:56,489 --> 00:26:59,185 I assume the planes will return automatically... 306 00:26:59,259 --> 00:27:01,284 once they reach their fail-safe points. 307 00:27:02,395 --> 00:27:06,923 I'm afraid not. The planes were holding at their fail-safe points... 308 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,025 when the go code was issued. 309 00:27:09,102 --> 00:27:13,596 Once they fly beyond fail-safe, they do not require a second order to proceed. 310 00:27:13,673 --> 00:27:15,607 They will continue until they reach their target. 311 00:27:15,675 --> 00:27:18,735 Then why haven't you radioed the planes, countermanding the go code? 312 00:27:20,413 --> 00:27:23,439 We're unable to communicate with any of the aircraft. 313 00:27:23,516 --> 00:27:25,711 Why? 314 00:27:25,785 --> 00:27:28,185 As you may recall, sir... 315 00:27:28,254 --> 00:27:31,883 one of the provisions of Plan R provides... 316 00:27:31,958 --> 00:27:36,554 that once the go code is received... 317 00:27:36,629 --> 00:27:39,962 the normal S.S.B. radios in the aircraft... 318 00:27:40,033 --> 00:27:42,501 are switched into a special coded device... 319 00:27:42,569 --> 00:27:45,629 which I believe is designated as C.R.M. 114. 320 00:27:45,705 --> 00:27:50,142 In order to prevent the enemy from issuing fake or confusing orders... 321 00:27:50,210 --> 00:27:54,146 C.R.M. 114 is designed not to receive at all... 322 00:27:54,214 --> 00:27:59,743 unless the message is proceeded by the correct three-letter code group prefix. 323 00:27:59,819 --> 00:28:05,189 You mean to tell me you will be unable to recall the aircraft? 324 00:28:05,258 --> 00:28:08,193 That's the size of it. However, we are plowing through... 325 00:28:08,261 --> 00:28:11,162 every possible three-letter combination of the code. 326 00:28:11,231 --> 00:28:16,430 But since there are 17,000 permutations... 327 00:28:16,502 --> 00:28:20,097 it's going to take us about two and a half days to transmit them all. 328 00:28:20,173 --> 00:28:22,937 How soon will the planes penetrate Russian radar cover? 329 00:28:23,009 --> 00:28:26,501 - About 18 minutes from now. - Are you in contact with General Ripper? 330 00:28:26,579 --> 00:28:31,482 No, sir. General Ripper sealed off the base and cut off communications. 331 00:28:31,551 --> 00:28:33,178 Where did you get this information? 332 00:28:33,253 --> 00:28:36,848 General Ripper called Strategic Air Command Headquarters... 333 00:28:36,923 --> 00:28:39,448 shortly after he issued the go code. 334 00:28:39,525 --> 00:28:43,154 I have a portion of the conversation transcript if you'd like me to read it. 335 00:28:43,229 --> 00:28:44,992 Read it. 336 00:28:46,799 --> 00:28:49,563 The duty officer asked General Ripper... 337 00:28:49,636 --> 00:28:52,901 to confirm the fact that he had issued the go code and he said: 338 00:28:53,906 --> 00:28:58,206 "Yes, gentlemen, they are on their way in and no one can bring them back. 339 00:28:58,278 --> 00:29:01,076 For the sake of our country and our way of life... 340 00:29:01,147 --> 00:29:03,843 I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. 341 00:29:03,916 --> 00:29:08,819 Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. 342 00:29:08,888 --> 00:29:14,190 My boys will give you the best kind of start: 1,400 megatons worth. 343 00:29:14,260 --> 00:29:17,821 And you sure as hell won't stop them now. 344 00:29:17,897 --> 00:29:20,764 So let's get going. There's no other choice. 345 00:29:20,833 --> 00:29:25,702 God willing, we will prevail in peace and freedom from fear... 346 00:29:25,772 --> 00:29:29,173 and in true health through the purity... 347 00:29:29,242 --> 00:29:33,110 and essence of our natural... 348 00:29:33,179 --> 00:29:34,612 fluids. 349 00:29:35,615 --> 00:29:37,606 God bless you all." 350 00:29:39,552 --> 00:29:42,180 Then he hung up. 351 00:29:42,255 --> 00:29:45,850 We're still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir. 352 00:29:45,925 --> 00:29:50,259 There's nothing to figure out. This man is obviously a psychotic. 353 00:29:50,330 --> 00:29:55,427 I'd like to hold off judgment until all the facts are in. 354 00:29:55,501 --> 00:30:00,097 General Turgidson, when you instituted the human reliability tests... 355 00:30:00,173 --> 00:30:04,109 you assured me there was no possibility of such a thing ever occurring. 356 00:30:06,079 --> 00:30:10,140 Well, I don't think it's fair to condemn a whole program... 357 00:30:10,216 --> 00:30:12,878 because of a single slipup, sir. 358 00:30:12,952 --> 00:30:15,477 I want to speak to General Ripper on the telephone. 359 00:30:15,555 --> 00:30:17,079 That's impossible. 360 00:30:17,156 --> 00:30:21,058 General Turgidson, I am becoming less and less interested... 361 00:30:21,127 --> 00:30:24,688 in your estimates of what is possible and impossible. 362 00:30:25,865 --> 00:30:27,298 General Faceman. 363 00:30:27,367 --> 00:30:28,527 Yes, sir? 364 00:30:28,601 --> 00:30:30,967 Are there any army units stationed near Burpelson? 365 00:30:31,037 --> 00:30:33,096 I'll just check, sir. 366 00:30:37,944 --> 00:30:39,377 Hello? 367 00:30:40,947 --> 00:30:44,178 I told you never to call me here. Don't you know where I am? 368 00:30:46,586 --> 00:30:49,248 Look, baby, I can't talk to you now. 369 00:30:49,322 --> 00:30:51,882 My president needs me. 370 00:30:51,958 --> 00:30:55,587 Of course Bucky would rather be there with you. 371 00:30:56,662 --> 00:30:59,825 Of course it isn't only physical. 372 00:30:59,899 --> 00:31:02,367 I deeply respect you as a human being. 373 00:31:02,435 --> 00:31:05,529 Someday I'm going to make you Mrs. Buck Turgidson. 374 00:31:06,706 --> 00:31:09,641 Oh, listen, you go back to sleep. 375 00:31:09,709 --> 00:31:12,678 Bucky will be there as soon as he can. 376 00:31:12,745 --> 00:31:17,341 All right. Listen, don't forget to say your prayers. 377 00:31:24,357 --> 00:31:28,293 Apparently, the 23rd Airborne Division... 378 00:31:28,361 --> 00:31:31,194 is stationed seven miles away at Alvarado. 379 00:31:31,264 --> 00:31:35,530 General Faceman, I want them to enter the base, locate General Ripper... 380 00:31:35,601 --> 00:31:37,967 and put him in immediate telephone contact with me. 381 00:31:38,037 --> 00:31:39,664 Yes, sir. 382 00:31:39,739 --> 00:31:41,400 Mr.President? 383 00:31:41,474 --> 00:31:43,066 If I may advise. 384 00:31:43,142 --> 00:31:47,408 Under a condition red, it is standard procedure that the base be sealed off... 385 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,244 and the base defended by base security troops. 386 00:31:50,316 --> 00:31:54,753 Any force trying to enter would certainly encounter heavy casualties. 387 00:31:54,821 --> 00:31:58,882 General Turgidson, with all due respect for your defense team... 388 00:31:58,958 --> 00:32:01,688 my boys can brush them aside without too much trouble. 389 00:32:02,628 --> 00:32:07,395 Mr.President, there are one or two points I'd like to make, if I may? 390 00:32:08,434 --> 00:32:09,867 Go ahead, General. 391 00:32:11,370 --> 00:32:16,034 One: Our hopes for recalling the 843rd Bomb Wing... 392 00:32:16,108 --> 00:32:20,408 are quickly being reduced to a very low order of probability. 393 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,506 Two: In less than 15 minutes from now... 394 00:32:23,583 --> 00:32:26,575 the Ruskies will be making radar contact with the planes. 395 00:32:26,652 --> 00:32:28,643 Three: When they do... 396 00:32:28,721 --> 00:32:32,350 they will go absolutely ape and strike back with everything they've got. 397 00:32:32,425 --> 00:32:36,327 Four: If prior to this time... 398 00:32:36,395 --> 00:32:39,853 we have done nothing to suppress their retaliatory capabilities... 399 00:32:39,932 --> 00:32:43,595 we will suffer virtual annihilation. 400 00:32:46,672 --> 00:32:51,336 Five: If, on the other hand... 401 00:32:53,212 --> 00:32:58,548 we immediately launched an attack on their airfields and missile bases... 402 00:32:58,618 --> 00:33:01,815 we'd stand a damn good chance of catching them with their pants down. 403 00:33:01,888 --> 00:33:04,254 Hell, we've got a five-to-one missile superiority. 404 00:33:04,323 --> 00:33:07,087 We could easily assign three missiles to every target... 405 00:33:07,159 --> 00:33:10,560 and still have a very effective reserve force for any other contingency. 406 00:33:10,630 --> 00:33:16,000 Six: An unofficial study which we undertook of this eventuality... 407 00:33:16,068 --> 00:33:21,005 indicated that we would destroy 90% of their nuclear capabilities. 408 00:33:21,073 --> 00:33:23,200 We would therefore prevail... 409 00:33:23,276 --> 00:33:26,473 and suffer only modest and acceptable civilian casualties... 410 00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:30,983 from their remaining force which would be badly damaged and uncoordinated. 411 00:33:31,050 --> 00:33:34,508 General, it is the avowed policy of our country... 412 00:33:34,587 --> 00:33:36,748 never to strike first with nuclear weapons. 413 00:33:36,822 --> 00:33:41,521 Well, Mr.President, General Ripper has already invalidated that policy. 414 00:33:41,594 --> 00:33:46,031 That was not an act of national policy. There are still alternatives open to us. 415 00:33:47,033 --> 00:33:51,868 Mr.President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth... 416 00:33:51,938 --> 00:33:55,101 both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. 417 00:33:55,174 --> 00:33:57,802 Truth is not always a pleasant thing. 418 00:33:57,877 --> 00:34:00,437 But it is necessary now to make a choice: 419 00:34:00,513 --> 00:34:03,277 to choose between two admittedly regrettable... 420 00:34:03,349 --> 00:34:06,807 but nevertheless distinguishable postwar environments. 421 00:34:06,886 --> 00:34:11,687 One, where 20 million people are killed; the other, 150 people killed. 422 00:34:11,757 --> 00:34:14,726 You're talking about mass murder, General, not war. 423 00:34:14,794 --> 00:34:18,389 Mr.President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. 424 00:34:18,464 --> 00:34:23,094 But I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed. Tops! 425 00:34:23,169 --> 00:34:25,160 Depending on the breaks. 426 00:34:25,237 --> 00:34:29,230 I will not go down in history as the greatest mass murderer since Hitler! 427 00:34:29,308 --> 00:34:31,902 It might be better if you were more concerned... 428 00:34:31,978 --> 00:34:35,311 with the American people than with your image in the history books. 429 00:34:35,381 --> 00:34:38,407 General Turgidson, I've heard quite sufficient from you. 430 00:34:38,484 --> 00:34:40,884 Thank you very much. 431 00:34:40,953 --> 00:34:43,513 Mr.President, they have the ambassador waiting upstairs. 432 00:34:43,589 --> 00:34:47,218 - Good. Any difficulty? - He's having a fit about the M.P.s. 433 00:34:47,293 --> 00:34:49,761 That can't be helped. Have him brought here straightaway. 434 00:34:49,829 --> 00:34:51,387 Yes, sir. 435 00:34:51,464 --> 00:34:53,989 Is that the Russian ambassador? 436 00:34:54,066 --> 00:34:56,159 Yes, it is, General. 437 00:34:58,270 --> 00:35:01,239 Am I to understand the Russian ambassador... 438 00:35:01,307 --> 00:35:03,673 is to be admitted entrance to the War Room? 439 00:35:03,743 --> 00:35:06,610 That is correct. He is here on my orders. 440 00:35:09,515 --> 00:35:11,710 I don't know exactly how to put this, sir... 441 00:35:11,784 --> 00:35:15,220 but are you aware of what a breach of security that would be? 442 00:35:15,287 --> 00:35:19,451 He'll see everything. He'll see the big board. 443 00:35:20,393 --> 00:35:22,725 That is precisely the idea, General. 444 00:35:22,795 --> 00:35:25,025 That is precisely the idea. 445 00:35:26,565 --> 00:35:30,467 Staines, get Premier Kissoff on the hot line. 446 00:35:37,610 --> 00:35:41,512 "Survival kit contents check. 447 00:35:41,580 --> 00:35:46,517 In them you will find one .45 caliber automatic... 448 00:35:46,585 --> 00:35:49,076 two boxes of ammunition... 449 00:35:49,155 --> 00:35:52,420 four days concentrated emergency rations... 450 00:35:52,491 --> 00:35:55,824 one drug issue containing antibiotics... 451 00:35:55,895 --> 00:36:00,229 morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills... 452 00:36:00,299 --> 00:36:04,099 sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills... 453 00:36:04,170 --> 00:36:09,005 one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible... 454 00:36:09,075 --> 00:36:12,101 $100 in rubles... 455 00:36:12,178 --> 00:36:14,305 $100 in gold... 456 00:36:14,380 --> 00:36:17,144 nine packs of chewing gum... 457 00:36:17,216 --> 00:36:19,150 one issue of prophylactics... 458 00:36:19,218 --> 00:36:23,245 three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings." 459 00:36:23,322 --> 00:36:28,055 Shoot, a fellow could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with that stuff. 460 00:36:33,566 --> 00:36:36,433 - You don't have any fresh fish? - I'm afraid not, sir. 461 00:36:36,502 --> 00:36:38,697 - Your eggs are fresh? - Yes, sir. 462 00:36:38,771 --> 00:36:42,730 I will have poached eggs. And bring me some cigars, please. Havana cigars. 463 00:36:42,808 --> 00:36:46,209 That will be all, sir? I'll see to it right away. 464 00:36:46,278 --> 00:36:49,475 Try one of these Jamaican cigars, Ambassador. They're good. 465 00:36:49,548 --> 00:36:53,006 Thank you, no. I do not support the work of imperialist stooges. 466 00:36:53,085 --> 00:36:55,679 Oh, only Commie stooges, huh? 467 00:36:55,755 --> 00:36:57,313 Mr.President. 468 00:36:59,191 --> 00:37:02,490 You're gonna let that lousy Commie punk vomit all over us like this? 469 00:37:02,561 --> 00:37:03,653 Mr.President? 470 00:37:03,729 --> 00:37:07,495 They haven't reached Premier Kissoff. They don't know where he is... 471 00:37:07,566 --> 00:37:09,966 and he won't be back for two hours. 472 00:37:11,036 --> 00:37:13,527 Try B-8-6-5-4-3 Moscow. 473 00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:15,699 You would never have found him through his office. 474 00:37:15,775 --> 00:37:19,802 Our premier is a man of the people, but he is also a man, if you follow. 475 00:37:19,879 --> 00:37:22,575 - Degenerate atheistic Commie. - What did you say? 476 00:37:22,648 --> 00:37:26,209 I said Premier Kissoff is a degenerate atheistic Commie! 477 00:37:26,285 --> 00:37:29,220 - Have this ignorant fool-- - I'm sorry! 478 00:37:29,288 --> 00:37:33,224 Mr.President, I think they're trying the number. 479 00:37:43,869 --> 00:37:46,997 Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room! 480 00:37:47,072 --> 00:37:49,905 What is going on here? I demand an explanation. 481 00:37:49,975 --> 00:37:54,241 This clumsy fool tried to plant that ridiculous camera on me. 482 00:37:54,313 --> 00:37:56,907 You bet your sweets, Mr.Commie! Look at this, Mr.President. 483 00:37:56,982 --> 00:38:00,577 This lousy Commie rat was taking pictures with this of the big board! 484 00:38:01,654 --> 00:38:03,519 Mr.Ambassador! 485 00:38:03,589 --> 00:38:07,855 This clumsy fool attempted to plant that ridiculous camera on me. 486 00:38:07,927 --> 00:38:10,794 That's a damn lie! I saw him with my own eyes. 487 00:38:10,863 --> 00:38:15,061 This is outrageous. I have never heard of such behavior in the War Room before. 488 00:38:15,134 --> 00:38:17,625 Mr.President, I think they're getting him on the line. 489 00:38:45,631 --> 00:38:47,565 You got to hand it to those Commies. 490 00:38:47,633 --> 00:38:52,161 Yeah. Those trucks sure look like the real thing, don't they? 491 00:38:52,238 --> 00:38:54,172 I wonder where they got them from. 492 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:56,504 Probably bought them from the army as war surplus. 493 00:39:00,212 --> 00:39:04,273 Okay, open up at 200 yards. 494 00:40:01,507 --> 00:40:05,170 Tell him where you are and that you'll speak if I say anything untrue... 495 00:40:05,244 --> 00:40:07,542 but nothing more than that. 496 00:40:09,148 --> 00:40:12,549 Alexi? Alexi, please. I beg you. 497 00:40:13,619 --> 00:40:16,213 But I don't have a phone. 498 00:40:16,288 --> 00:40:18,848 Give him the phone. 499 00:40:45,651 --> 00:40:50,020 I've done as you asked. Be careful. I think he is drunk. 500 00:40:53,025 --> 00:40:57,485 Hello? Hello, Dimitri? 501 00:40:57,563 --> 00:40:59,963 Listen, I can't hear too well. 502 00:41:00,032 --> 00:41:03,297 Could you turn the music down a little? 503 00:41:03,369 --> 00:41:05,303 That's much better. 504 00:41:05,371 --> 00:41:07,999 Yeah. Yeah. 505 00:41:09,274 --> 00:41:12,072 Fine. I can hear you now, Dimitri. 506 00:41:12,144 --> 00:41:15,636 Clear and plain and coming through fine. 507 00:41:15,714 --> 00:41:20,117 I'm coming through fine, too, eh? Good. 508 00:41:20,185 --> 00:41:24,144 Well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine. Good. 509 00:41:24,223 --> 00:41:26,157 It's good that you're fine... 510 00:41:26,225 --> 00:41:28,489 and I'm fine. 511 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,791 I agree with you. It's great to be fine. 512 00:41:32,698 --> 00:41:34,893 Now, Dimitri... 513 00:41:34,967 --> 00:41:40,667 you know how we've always talked about the possibility... 514 00:41:40,739 --> 00:41:43,435 of something going wrong with the bomb. 515 00:41:44,810 --> 00:41:46,778 The bomb, Dimitri. 516 00:41:47,980 --> 00:41:50,608 The hydrogen bomb. 517 00:41:50,682 --> 00:41:53,651 Well, now, what happened is... 518 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,951 one of our base commanders, he had a sort of-- 519 00:41:58,023 --> 00:42:01,254 Well, he went a little funny in the head. 520 00:42:01,326 --> 00:42:04,420 You know, just a little funny. 521 00:42:04,496 --> 00:42:08,125 And he went and did a silly thing. 522 00:42:09,201 --> 00:42:11,135 I'll tell you what he did. 523 00:42:11,203 --> 00:42:13,535 He ordered his planes... 524 00:42:15,207 --> 00:42:17,675 to attack your country. 525 00:42:17,743 --> 00:42:20,143 Let me finish, Dimitri. 526 00:42:21,146 --> 00:42:23,114 Let me finish, Dimitri. 527 00:42:23,182 --> 00:42:26,379 Listen, how do you think I feel about it? 528 00:42:26,452 --> 00:42:29,319 Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dimitri? 529 00:42:30,856 --> 00:42:33,017 Why do you think I'm calling you? 530 00:42:33,092 --> 00:42:35,117 Just to say hello? 531 00:42:36,195 --> 00:42:38,595 Of course I like to speak to you! 532 00:42:38,664 --> 00:42:41,189 Of course I like to say hello! 533 00:42:41,266 --> 00:42:43,461 Not now, but anytime, Dimitri. 534 00:42:43,535 --> 00:42:47,562 I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened. 535 00:42:47,639 --> 00:42:50,631 Of course, it's a friendly call. 536 00:42:50,709 --> 00:42:54,975 Listen, if it wasn't friendly, you probably wouldn't have even got it. 537 00:42:57,282 --> 00:43:02,049 They will not reach their targets for at least another hour. 538 00:43:02,121 --> 00:43:05,215 I am positive, Dimitri. 539 00:43:05,290 --> 00:43:07,724 I've been all over this with your ambassador. 540 00:43:07,793 --> 00:43:10,284 It is not a trick. 541 00:43:10,362 --> 00:43:11,829 I'll tell you. 542 00:43:11,897 --> 00:43:15,731 We'd like to give your Air Staff a complete rundown on the targets... 543 00:43:15,801 --> 00:43:19,066 the flight plans and defensive systems of the planes. 544 00:43:19,138 --> 00:43:24,075 Yes, if we're unable to recall the planes... 545 00:43:24,143 --> 00:43:26,805 I'd say, well... 546 00:43:28,213 --> 00:43:32,582 we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dimitri. 547 00:43:32,651 --> 00:43:35,586 I know they're our boys. 548 00:43:35,654 --> 00:43:38,179 Listen. Now, who should we call? 549 00:43:40,025 --> 00:43:44,519 Who should we call? Sorry, you faded away. 550 00:43:45,731 --> 00:43:49,599 The Peoples Central Air Defense Headquarters. 551 00:43:49,668 --> 00:43:51,966 Where is that, Dimitri? 552 00:43:52,037 --> 00:43:54,164 In Omsk. Right. 553 00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:56,502 Yes. 554 00:43:56,575 --> 00:43:59,476 You'll call them first, will you? 555 00:44:00,979 --> 00:44:03,914 Do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dimitri? 556 00:44:05,784 --> 00:44:08,776 What? I see. Just ask for Omsk information. 557 00:44:10,856 --> 00:44:14,986 I'm sorry too, Dimitri. I'm very sorry. 558 00:44:15,060 --> 00:44:18,894 All right, you're sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well. 559 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,464 I am as sorry as you are, Dimitri. 560 00:44:23,535 --> 00:44:25,503 Don't say that you're more sorry than I am... 561 00:44:25,571 --> 00:44:28,506 because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are. 562 00:44:28,574 --> 00:44:30,508 So we're both sorry, all right? 563 00:44:30,576 --> 00:44:32,009 All right. 564 00:44:33,245 --> 00:44:37,511 Yes, he's right here. Yes, he wants to talk to you. Just a second. 565 00:44:50,062 --> 00:44:51,757 What? 566 00:45:10,449 --> 00:45:13,316 What? What is it? What? 567 00:45:13,385 --> 00:45:16,411 The fools. The mad fools. 568 00:45:17,823 --> 00:45:19,984 What's happened? 569 00:45:20,058 --> 00:45:22,390 The doomsday machine. 570 00:45:22,461 --> 00:45:25,021 The doomsday machine? What is that? 571 00:45:25,097 --> 00:45:30,501 A device which will destroy all human and animal life on Earth. 572 00:45:30,569 --> 00:45:32,833 All human and animal life? 573 00:45:47,686 --> 00:45:49,984 - Mandrake? - Yes, Jack? 574 00:45:51,290 --> 00:45:54,885 Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water? 575 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:59,522 Well, I can't say I have, Jack. 576 00:46:00,732 --> 00:46:05,601 Vodka. That's what they drink, isn't it? Never water. 577 00:46:05,671 --> 00:46:10,074 I believe that's what they drink, yes. 578 00:46:10,142 --> 00:46:13,600 On no account will a Commie ever drink water... 579 00:46:13,679 --> 00:46:16,011 and not without good reason. 580 00:46:17,082 --> 00:46:19,744 Oh, yes. 581 00:46:19,818 --> 00:46:24,881 I can't quite see what you're getting at. 582 00:46:26,024 --> 00:46:29,221 Water. That's what I'm getting at. Water. 583 00:46:30,762 --> 00:46:34,220 Mandrake, water is the source of all life. 584 00:46:35,767 --> 00:46:39,362 Seven-tenths of this Earth's surface is water. 585 00:46:39,438 --> 00:46:42,771 Why, do you realize that... 586 00:46:42,841 --> 00:46:45,901 70% of you is water? 587 00:46:45,977 --> 00:46:47,410 Good Lord. 588 00:46:47,479 --> 00:46:52,610 And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water... 589 00:46:52,684 --> 00:46:56,279 to replenish our precious bodily fluids. 590 00:46:56,355 --> 00:46:59,085 - You beginning to understand? - Yes. 591 00:47:06,431 --> 00:47:11,698 Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water... 592 00:47:11,770 --> 00:47:16,173 or rainwater, and only pure grain alcohol? 593 00:47:16,241 --> 00:47:19,540 It did occur to me, Jack, yes. 594 00:47:20,645 --> 00:47:24,604 Have you ever heard of fluoridation of water? 595 00:47:25,684 --> 00:47:29,518 Yes, I have heard of that, Jack, yes. 596 00:47:29,588 --> 00:47:31,522 Do you know what it is? 597 00:47:31,590 --> 00:47:34,718 No, no, I don't know what it is. 598 00:47:34,793 --> 00:47:38,729 Do you realize that fluoridation... 599 00:47:38,797 --> 00:47:41,630 is the most monstrously conceived... 600 00:47:41,700 --> 00:47:44,498 and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face? 601 00:47:50,909 --> 00:47:52,877 Two can play at that game, soldier. 602 00:47:57,983 --> 00:48:00,713 That's nice shooting, soldier! 603 00:48:25,177 --> 00:48:27,236 Mandrake, come here. 604 00:48:27,312 --> 00:48:29,337 You calling me, Jack? 605 00:48:29,414 --> 00:48:31,848 Come over here and help me with this belt. 606 00:48:34,886 --> 00:48:37,878 I haven't had very much experience... 607 00:48:37,956 --> 00:48:40,754 with those sort of machines. 608 00:48:40,826 --> 00:48:44,626 I've only ever pressed a button in my old Spitfire. 609 00:48:44,696 --> 00:48:48,325 In the name of Her Majesty and the Continental Congress, feed me this belt. 610 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:53,167 Jack, I'd love to come, but what's happened, you see... 611 00:48:53,238 --> 00:48:56,036 the string in my leg is gone. 612 00:48:57,108 --> 00:49:00,908 - The what? - The string. I never told you. 613 00:49:00,979 --> 00:49:04,881 I've got a gammy leg. Oh, dear. Gone. Shot off. 614 00:49:07,018 --> 00:49:10,681 Mandrake, come over here. The redcoats are coming. 615 00:49:11,790 --> 00:49:15,954 When it is detonated, it will produce enough radioactive fallout... 616 00:49:16,027 --> 00:49:17,961 so that in ten months... 617 00:49:18,029 --> 00:49:21,123 the surface of the Earth will be as dead as the moon! 618 00:49:21,199 --> 00:49:24,168 Come on, De Sadesky! That's ridiculous! 619 00:49:24,236 --> 00:49:28,366 Our studies show even the worst fallout is down to a safe level after two weeks. 620 00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:33,468 - You never heard of cobalt theoium G. - What about it? 621 00:49:33,545 --> 00:49:37,641 Cobalt thorium G has a radioactive half-life of 93 years. 622 00:49:37,716 --> 00:49:40,810 If you take 50 H bombs in the 100 megaton range... 623 00:49:40,886 --> 00:49:43,286 and jacket them with cobalt thorium G... 624 00:49:43,355 --> 00:49:47,985 when they are exploded, they will produce a doomsday shroud... 625 00:49:48,059 --> 00:49:50,357 a lethal cloud of radioactivity... 626 00:49:50,428 --> 00:49:54,865 which will encircle the Earth for 93 years! 627 00:49:54,933 --> 00:49:58,494 What a load of Commie bull. I mean, after all. 628 00:49:59,571 --> 00:50:02,233 I'm afraid I don't understand something, Alexi. 629 00:50:02,307 --> 00:50:05,936 Is the premier threatening to explode it if our planes carry out their attack? 630 00:50:06,011 --> 00:50:08,571 No, sir. It is not a thing a sane man would do. 631 00:50:08,647 --> 00:50:11,582 The doomsday machine is designed to trigger itself automatically. 632 00:50:11,650 --> 00:50:13,914 Surely you can disarm it somehow. 633 00:50:13,985 --> 00:50:17,921 It is designed to explode if any attempt is made to un-trigger it. 634 00:50:17,989 --> 00:50:19,251 Automatically? 635 00:50:19,324 --> 00:50:21,918 It's a Commie trick! We're wasting valuable time! 636 00:50:21,993 --> 00:50:25,087 Look at the big board! They're getting ready to clobber us! 637 00:50:25,163 --> 00:50:29,827 This is absolute madness. Why should you build such a thing? 638 00:50:29,901 --> 00:50:31,869 There are those of us who fought against it. 639 00:50:31,937 --> 00:50:33,996 But in the end, we could not keep up with the expense involved... 640 00:50:34,072 --> 00:50:38,600 in the arms race, the space race and the peace race. 641 00:50:38,677 --> 00:50:43,910 At the same time, our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. 642 00:50:43,982 --> 00:50:46,542 Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction... 643 00:50:46,618 --> 00:50:49,849 of what we have been spending on defense in a single year. 644 00:50:49,921 --> 00:50:54,358 The deciding factor was when we learned your country was working similarly... 645 00:50:54,426 --> 00:50:56,360 and we were afraid of a doomsday gap! 646 00:50:56,428 --> 00:50:59,795 This is preposterous! I've never approved of anything like that. 647 00:50:59,864 --> 00:51:02,697 Our source was The New York Times. 648 00:51:02,767 --> 00:51:06,669 Dr.Strangelove, do we have anything like that in the works? 649 00:51:06,738 --> 00:51:09,206 A moment, please, Mr.President. 650 00:51:11,943 --> 00:51:15,379 Under the authority granted me... 651 00:51:15,447 --> 00:51:19,611 as director of weapons research and development... 652 00:51:19,684 --> 00:51:23,882 I commissioned last year a study of this project... 653 00:51:23,955 --> 00:51:26,185 by the Bland Corporation. 654 00:51:26,257 --> 00:51:29,420 Based on the findings of the report... 655 00:51:29,494 --> 00:51:34,989 my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent... 656 00:51:35,066 --> 00:51:38,900 for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious. 657 00:51:38,970 --> 00:51:42,371 You mean it is possible for them to have built such a thing? 658 00:51:46,544 --> 00:51:51,413 Mr.President, the technology required is easily within the means... 659 00:51:51,483 --> 00:51:55,886 of even the smallest nuclear power. 660 00:51:55,954 --> 00:51:59,913 It requires only the will to do so. 661 00:52:00,925 --> 00:52:04,793 But how is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically... 662 00:52:04,863 --> 00:52:07,195 and at the same time impossible to un-trigger? 663 00:52:07,265 --> 00:52:11,292 Mr.President, it is not only possible... 664 00:52:11,369 --> 00:52:13,303 it is essential. 665 00:52:13,371 --> 00:52:17,808 That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. 666 00:52:17,876 --> 00:52:23,075 Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... 667 00:52:23,148 --> 00:52:25,742 the fear of attack. 668 00:52:25,817 --> 00:52:30,754 And so because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process... 669 00:52:30,822 --> 00:52:34,724 which rules out human meddling... 670 00:52:34,793 --> 00:52:38,752 the doomsday machine is terrifying... 671 00:52:38,830 --> 00:52:40,923 and simple to understand... 672 00:52:40,999 --> 00:52:44,696 and completely credible and convincing. 673 00:52:44,769 --> 00:52:48,102 I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. 674 00:52:48,173 --> 00:52:51,768 But this is fantastic, Strangelove. How can it be triggered automatically? 675 00:52:51,843 --> 00:52:55,643 It's remarkably simple to do that. 676 00:52:55,714 --> 00:52:59,241 When you merely wish to bury bombs... 677 00:52:59,317 --> 00:53:01,649 there's no limit to the size. 678 00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:03,950 After that, they are connected... 679 00:53:04,022 --> 00:53:08,049 to a gigantic complex of computers. 680 00:53:08,126 --> 00:53:13,860 Now then, a specific and clearly defined set of circumstances... 681 00:53:13,932 --> 00:53:17,390 under which the bombs are to be exploded... 682 00:53:17,469 --> 00:53:21,496 is programmed into a tape memory bank. 683 00:53:21,573 --> 00:53:24,667 Hmm. Strangelove? 684 00:53:25,744 --> 00:53:28,804 What kind of a name is that? That ain't no Kraut name, is it? 685 00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,178 He changed it when he became a citizen. 686 00:53:31,249 --> 00:53:34,241 It used to be Merkwurdichliebe. 687 00:53:34,319 --> 00:53:38,688 Well, a Kraut by any other name, uh, Stainsey? 688 00:53:40,592 --> 00:53:44,961 The whole point of the doomsday machine... 689 00:53:45,029 --> 00:53:48,590 is lost if you keep it a secret! 690 00:53:48,666 --> 00:53:50,827 Why didn't you tell the world? 691 00:53:50,902 --> 00:53:55,305 It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. 692 00:53:55,373 --> 00:53:58,706 As you know, the premier loves surprises. 693 00:54:47,192 --> 00:54:49,422 Stay with me, Mandrake. 694 00:54:54,599 --> 00:54:57,295 All right, now feed me. Feed me, boy. 695 00:55:27,165 --> 00:55:32,228 Don't you think we'd be better off away from this flying glass? 696 00:55:32,303 --> 00:55:34,362 We're okay here. 697 00:55:36,007 --> 00:55:40,034 Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating the water... 698 00:55:40,111 --> 00:55:43,672 there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour... 699 00:55:43,748 --> 00:55:48,776 fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? 700 00:55:48,853 --> 00:55:50,115 Ice cream. 701 00:55:50,188 --> 00:55:52,622 - Children's ice cream. - Good Lord. 702 00:55:52,690 --> 00:55:55,124 You know when fluoridation first began? 703 00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,094 No, I don't, Jack. 704 00:55:58,162 --> 00:56:00,630 1946. 705 00:56:00,698 --> 00:56:03,462 1946, Mandrake. 706 00:56:03,534 --> 00:56:07,834 How does that coincide with your postwar Commie conspiracy, huh? 707 00:56:07,906 --> 00:56:11,205 It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? 708 00:56:11,276 --> 00:56:16,805 A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids... 709 00:56:16,881 --> 00:56:20,146 without the knowledge of the individual. 710 00:56:20,218 --> 00:56:22,152 Certainly without any choice. 711 00:56:23,955 --> 00:56:27,254 That's the way a hard-core Commie works. 712 00:56:28,693 --> 00:56:31,924 Jack. Tell me, Jack. 713 00:56:31,996 --> 00:56:34,658 When did you first become-- 714 00:56:34,732 --> 00:56:37,496 Well, develop this theory? 715 00:56:38,603 --> 00:56:40,833 Well, I-- 716 00:56:40,905 --> 00:56:44,466 I first became aware of it, Mandrake... 717 00:56:44,542 --> 00:56:46,533 during the physical act of love. 718 00:56:48,313 --> 00:56:52,579 Yes, a profound sense of fatigue... 719 00:56:52,650 --> 00:56:55,210 feeling of emptiness followed. 720 00:56:55,286 --> 00:56:59,052 Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. 721 00:57:00,458 --> 00:57:02,085 Loss of essence. 722 00:57:03,728 --> 00:57:07,459 I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. 723 00:57:07,532 --> 00:57:10,467 Women sense my power... 724 00:57:11,703 --> 00:57:13,830 and they seek the life essence. 725 00:57:15,106 --> 00:57:18,439 I do not avoid women, Mandrake. 726 00:57:18,509 --> 00:57:21,410 But I do deny them my essence. 727 00:57:21,479 --> 00:57:24,346 Yes, yes, Jack. 728 00:57:36,995 --> 00:57:39,122 Cease fire! 729 00:58:00,418 --> 00:58:02,113 My boys must have surrendered. 730 00:58:02,186 --> 00:58:04,518 There it is. 731 00:58:04,589 --> 00:58:06,420 Jack, listen. 732 00:58:06,491 --> 00:58:09,824 While there's still time, I beg you, let's recall the Wing and-- 733 00:58:11,963 --> 00:58:14,796 Those boys were like my children. 734 00:58:16,367 --> 00:58:18,426 Now they let me down. 735 00:58:18,503 --> 00:58:20,198 No, not a bit. 736 00:58:20,271 --> 00:58:23,069 I'm sure they all gave it their very best. 737 00:58:23,141 --> 00:58:25,632 I'm equally sure they all died thinking of you... 738 00:58:25,710 --> 00:58:28,440 every man jack of them, Jack. 739 00:58:28,513 --> 00:58:31,175 Supposing a bit of water has gone off, eh? 740 00:58:31,249 --> 00:58:33,547 Certainly one can never be too sure about those things. 741 00:58:33,618 --> 00:58:36,587 But look at me. Do I look all rancid and clotted? 742 00:58:36,654 --> 00:58:39,452 Look at me, Jack. Look. 743 00:58:39,524 --> 00:58:43,620 And I drink a lot of water. I'm what you might call a water man. 744 00:58:43,694 --> 00:58:47,061 And I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you... 745 00:58:47,131 --> 00:58:49,395 that there's nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. 746 00:58:49,467 --> 00:58:51,958 Not a thing, Jackie. 747 00:58:52,036 --> 00:58:54,334 Mandrake, were you ever a prisoner of war? 748 00:58:54,405 --> 00:58:58,068 Well, Jack, the time's running very-- 749 00:58:58,142 --> 00:59:01,202 - What? - Were you ever a prisoner of war? 750 00:59:01,279 --> 00:59:03,372 Yes, I was, as a matter of fact. 751 00:59:03,448 --> 00:59:06,542 Did they torture you? 752 00:59:06,617 --> 00:59:09,643 Yes, they did. I was tortured by the Japanese. 753 00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,381 Not a pretty story. 754 00:59:11,456 --> 00:59:13,048 What happened? 755 00:59:13,124 --> 00:59:17,424 I don't know, Jack. It's difficult to think under these conditions. 756 00:59:17,495 --> 00:59:19,725 Well, what happened was... 757 00:59:19,797 --> 00:59:23,198 they got me on the old Rangoon-Inchinawa Railway. 758 00:59:23,267 --> 00:59:27,636 I was laying train lines for the bloody Japanese puff-puffs. 759 00:59:27,705 --> 00:59:30,936 No, I mean, when they tortured you, did you talk? 760 00:59:32,677 --> 00:59:34,668 No, I-- 761 00:59:34,745 --> 00:59:39,011 Well, I don't think they wanted me to talk, really, or say anything. 762 00:59:39,083 --> 00:59:42,177 It was their way of having a bit of fun, the swine. 763 00:59:42,253 --> 00:59:45,586 The strange thing is, they make such bloody good cameras. 764 00:59:47,325 --> 00:59:52,957 Those clowns outside will give me a good going-over soon for the code. 765 00:59:55,967 --> 00:59:59,334 Yes, you may have quite a point there, Jack. 766 01:00:00,438 --> 01:00:03,430 I don't know how well I could stand up under torture. 767 01:00:03,508 --> 01:00:06,773 The answer to that is, no one ever does. 768 01:00:06,844 --> 01:00:10,974 And my advise to you is to give me the code now. 769 01:00:11,048 --> 01:00:13,949 If those devils come back and try any rough stuff... 770 01:00:14,018 --> 01:00:17,283 we'll fight them together like we did just now on the floor. 771 01:00:17,355 --> 01:00:20,882 You with your gun and me with a belt of ammo, feeding you. 772 01:00:20,958 --> 01:00:23,756 "Feed me," you said, and I was feeding you, Jack. 773 01:00:23,828 --> 01:00:26,490 You know, Mandrake... 774 01:00:26,564 --> 01:00:29,795 I happen to believe in a life after this one... 775 01:00:31,302 --> 01:00:34,738 and I know I'll have to answer for what I've done. 776 01:00:36,574 --> 01:00:38,041 And I think I can. 777 01:00:38,109 --> 01:00:41,340 Yes, of course you can. Of course you can. You can. 778 01:00:41,412 --> 01:00:43,846 I'm a religious man myself, you know. 779 01:00:43,915 --> 01:00:47,783 I believe in all that sort of thing and I'm hoping, you know, Jack-- 780 01:00:47,852 --> 01:00:50,719 You've dropped your gun, Jack. 781 01:00:50,788 --> 01:00:54,383 No, Jack, let me take that for you. 782 01:00:54,458 --> 01:00:57,950 You know what I'm hoping? I'm hoping you're going to give me the code, boy. 783 01:00:59,730 --> 01:01:02,358 You're going to wash and brush up? What a good idea. 784 01:01:02,433 --> 01:01:05,027 Always did wonders for a man, a wash and brush up. 785 01:01:05,102 --> 01:01:07,866 Water on the back of the neck makes you feel marvelous. 786 01:01:07,939 --> 01:01:10,703 That's what we need: water on the back of the neck and the code. 787 01:01:10,775 --> 01:01:14,370 Supposing I play a little guessing game with you, Jack boy? 788 01:01:14,445 --> 01:01:17,437 I'll try and guess what the code is-- 789 01:01:33,931 --> 01:01:38,425 Copilot to navigator. I'm ready with the fuel figures now. 790 01:01:38,502 --> 01:01:41,471 We have 109,000 total... 791 01:01:41,539 --> 01:01:44,372 79,000 in the mains... 792 01:01:44,442 --> 01:01:47,240 and 30,000 in the auxiliaries. 793 01:01:47,311 --> 01:01:49,245 And that works out to roughly... 794 01:01:49,313 --> 01:01:52,771 seven hours, 15 minutes endurance from this time. 795 01:01:53,918 --> 01:01:55,351 D.S.O. to Captain. 796 01:01:55,419 --> 01:01:58,513 I have an unidentified radar blip. 797 01:01:59,924 --> 01:02:02,518 Distance: 60 miles. 798 01:02:03,694 --> 01:02:06,857 Approximate speed: Mach three. 799 01:02:06,931 --> 01:02:08,865 Looks like a missile tracking us. 800 01:02:11,802 --> 01:02:13,861 Confirmed: definite missile track. 801 01:02:13,938 --> 01:02:15,997 Commence evasive action right. 802 01:02:22,246 --> 01:02:25,909 Missile still closing range. 803 01:02:25,983 --> 01:02:29,976 Distance: 50 miles. Continue evasive action. 804 01:02:30,054 --> 01:02:32,784 Lock E.C.M. to target intercept mode. 805 01:02:32,857 --> 01:02:36,486 E.C.M. locked to target intercept mode. 806 01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,994 Missile still tracking and closing distance. 807 01:02:39,063 --> 01:02:43,056 Range: 40 miles. Continue evasive action. 808 01:02:45,970 --> 01:02:50,236 Electronic Guidance Scrambler to blue grid. 809 01:02:50,308 --> 01:02:53,800 Missile still tracking steady and closing distance. 810 01:02:53,878 --> 01:02:55,812 Range: 30 miles. 811 01:02:58,082 --> 01:03:02,314 Missile still closing true and steady. Continue evasive action. 812 01:03:09,860 --> 01:03:11,851 Range: 20 miles. 813 01:03:11,929 --> 01:03:15,797 Missile still closing distance and tracking steady. 814 01:03:15,866 --> 01:03:18,300 Attack range gate on maximum scan. 815 01:03:18,369 --> 01:03:20,803 Range gate on maximum scan. 816 01:03:20,871 --> 01:03:23,738 Range: 10 miles. 817 01:03:23,808 --> 01:03:27,767 Missile track deflecting. Continue evasive action. 818 01:03:27,845 --> 01:03:31,110 Deflection increasing. Range: eight miles. 819 01:03:31,182 --> 01:03:35,118 Deflection still increasing. Range: six miles. 820 01:03:35,186 --> 01:03:37,882 Missile still deflecting. Range: four miles. 821 01:03:43,694 --> 01:03:46,891 Range: two miles. Missile still deflecting. 822 01:03:46,964 --> 01:03:49,228 Range: one mile. Missile detonated! 823 01:03:55,906 --> 01:03:57,999 - Start lever to cut off! - Cut off! 824 01:04:01,412 --> 01:04:02,845 We're losin' power! 825 01:04:11,288 --> 01:04:13,620 Re-select essential power! 826 01:04:13,691 --> 01:04:15,716 Essential power re-selected. 827 01:04:22,333 --> 01:04:24,267 The hatch is stuck! 828 01:04:27,838 --> 01:04:29,271 Hit emergency power! 829 01:04:31,776 --> 01:04:34,609 - Extinguishers! - Roger! 830 01:04:41,352 --> 01:04:44,617 - Transfer switches! - Transferred! 831 01:04:44,688 --> 01:04:46,952 - Boost pumps off! - Cut off! 832 01:04:58,702 --> 01:05:00,693 Fuel valves three, four and six! 833 01:05:13,217 --> 01:05:14,650 Give me full power! 834 01:05:27,531 --> 01:05:30,125 Peace on Earth. 835 01:05:34,772 --> 01:05:37,468 P.O.E. 836 01:05:37,541 --> 01:05:40,408 Purity of Essence. 837 01:05:40,478 --> 01:05:44,005 O.P.O.E. 838 01:05:55,159 --> 01:05:57,491 Put your hands over your head. 839 01:05:57,561 --> 01:06:00,189 What do you think you're doing? Who are you? 840 01:06:00,264 --> 01:06:02,129 Put your hands over your head. 841 01:06:02,199 --> 01:06:05,794 What kind of suit do you call that, fella? 842 01:06:05,870 --> 01:06:07,861 What do you mean, suit? 843 01:06:07,938 --> 01:06:10,372 This happens to be an R.A.F. uniform... 844 01:06:10,441 --> 01:06:14,775 and I am Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, General Ripper's executive officer. 845 01:06:14,845 --> 01:06:16,369 Where's General Ripper? 846 01:06:16,447 --> 01:06:19,280 He's dead, in the bathroom. 847 01:06:19,350 --> 01:06:21,511 Where's the bathroom? 848 01:06:21,585 --> 01:06:23,018 Next to you. 849 01:06:32,496 --> 01:06:35,226 I don't know what stupid game this is you're playing... 850 01:06:35,299 --> 01:06:37,426 but I've got a good idea what the recall code is... 851 01:06:37,501 --> 01:06:40,026 and I have to get in touch with SAC headquarters immediately! 852 01:06:40,104 --> 01:06:43,801 Put your hands over your head and keep 'em there! Go on. 853 01:06:43,874 --> 01:06:45,569 Got any witnesses? 854 01:06:45,643 --> 01:06:47,577 What are you talking about? He shot himself! 855 01:06:47,645 --> 01:06:49,670 While he was shavin'? 856 01:06:49,747 --> 01:06:52,910 Now look, Colonel Bat Guano... 857 01:06:52,983 --> 01:06:55,451 if that really is your name... 858 01:06:55,519 --> 01:06:59,387 may I tell you that I have a very good idea-- 859 01:06:59,456 --> 01:07:02,482 I think, hope, pray-- what the recall code is. 860 01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:05,290 It's some theme he kept repeating. A variation on... 861 01:07:05,362 --> 01:07:08,593 "Peace on Earth" or "Purity of Essence," one of those. 862 01:07:08,666 --> 01:07:12,500 Put your hands on top of your head. Start walkin'. 863 01:07:12,570 --> 01:07:15,801 Don't you know that General Ripper went mad... 864 01:07:15,873 --> 01:07:19,274 and sent the whole Wing to attack the Soviets? 865 01:07:19,343 --> 01:07:22,870 - What are you talkin' about? - I'll tell you what I'm talking about. 866 01:07:22,947 --> 01:07:27,043 I'm going to pick up this red telephone, which is connected to SAC... 867 01:07:27,117 --> 01:07:28,550 and I hope-- 868 01:07:30,087 --> 01:07:32,248 Blast. Blast. 869 01:07:32,323 --> 01:07:36,316 Shot away, I expect, by one of your men during this ridiculous fighting! 870 01:07:37,761 --> 01:07:39,786 Right. 871 01:07:39,863 --> 01:07:43,264 All right, Charlie, I've been wastin' too much time on you. 872 01:07:43,334 --> 01:07:47,134 I got a lot of wounded men outside. Start walkin'. 873 01:08:09,426 --> 01:08:13,260 All the radio gear is out, including the C.R.M. 114. 874 01:08:13,330 --> 01:08:16,493 I think the auto-destruct mechanism got hit and blew itself up. 875 01:08:21,005 --> 01:08:24,236 The fire is out. The emergency power is on. 876 01:08:24,308 --> 01:08:27,800 Everything checks out all right. Will advise. 877 01:08:27,878 --> 01:08:29,607 Roger. Navigator? 878 01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:35,141 I've worked out our rate of fuel loss at approximately 1-6-2 per minute. 879 01:08:35,219 --> 01:08:38,017 This gives us a radius of action sufficient to take out... 880 01:08:38,088 --> 01:08:41,455 primary and secondary targets, but we will not... 881 01:08:41,525 --> 01:08:45,689 repeat, not be able to make it back to any base or neutral country. 882 01:08:46,630 --> 01:08:49,190 However, we would have enough fuel to ditch... 883 01:08:49,266 --> 01:08:51,996 at weather ship Tango Delta... 884 01:08:52,069 --> 01:08:55,334 grid coordinates 0-0-3-6-9-1. 885 01:09:00,110 --> 01:09:02,544 Well, boys, we got three engines out. 886 01:09:02,613 --> 01:09:06,413 We got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule. 887 01:09:06,483 --> 01:09:08,508 The radio is gone, and we're leakin' fuel. 888 01:09:08,585 --> 01:09:12,021 And if we was flyin' any lower, we'd need sleigh bells on this thing. 889 01:09:12,089 --> 01:09:15,081 But we got one little budge on them Ruskies. 890 01:09:15,159 --> 01:09:17,093 At this height they might harpoon us... 891 01:09:17,161 --> 01:09:20,255 but they sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen. 892 01:09:31,442 --> 01:09:33,376 The other way. 893 01:09:33,444 --> 01:09:35,844 - Where are you taking me? - To the main gate. 894 01:09:37,915 --> 01:09:41,373 Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here. 895 01:09:41,452 --> 01:09:43,386 - You wanna know what I think? - Yes. 896 01:09:43,454 --> 01:09:46,150 I think you're some kind of deviated "prevert." 897 01:09:46,223 --> 01:09:48,953 I think General Ripper found out about your "preversion"... 898 01:09:49,026 --> 01:09:51,324 and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of "preverts." 899 01:09:51,395 --> 01:09:53,795 Now, move! 900 01:09:53,864 --> 01:09:57,197 On top of that, I don't know anything about any planes attacking Russia. 901 01:09:57,267 --> 01:10:01,067 I was told to get Ripper on the phone with the President of the United States. 902 01:10:01,138 --> 01:10:05,905 Now just one second. You just said "the president." 903 01:10:05,976 --> 01:10:08,206 What about the president? 904 01:10:08,278 --> 01:10:11,441 The president wants to speak to General Ripper, doesn't he? 905 01:10:11,515 --> 01:10:14,109 Now, General Ripper is dead, is he not? 906 01:10:14,184 --> 01:10:16,414 I am General Ripper's executive officer... 907 01:10:16,487 --> 01:10:19,456 so the president will want to speak to me, won't he? 908 01:10:19,523 --> 01:10:23,254 There's a telephone box over there and the line may be open. 909 01:10:23,327 --> 01:10:26,125 You wanna talk to the President of the United States? 910 01:10:26,196 --> 01:10:29,063 I don't want to talk to him, Colonel, I've got to talk to him. 911 01:10:29,133 --> 01:10:32,796 And if you don't put that gun away and stop this stupid nonsense... 912 01:10:32,870 --> 01:10:36,897 the Court of Inquiry on this will give you such a pranging... 913 01:10:36,974 --> 01:10:41,070 you'll be lucky to end up wearing the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant! 914 01:10:45,883 --> 01:10:49,512 Go ahead, try and get the President of the United States on the phone. 915 01:10:52,189 --> 01:10:54,248 Try any "preversions," I'll blow your head off. 916 01:11:08,872 --> 01:11:11,705 Operator? This is Group Captain Lionel Mandrake. 917 01:11:11,775 --> 01:11:13,834 I'm speaking from Burpelson Air Force Base. 918 01:11:13,911 --> 01:11:17,813 Something urgent has come up and I want you to place a person-to-person call... 919 01:11:17,881 --> 01:11:20,975 with President Merkin Muffley in the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 920 01:11:22,352 --> 01:11:25,549 Burpelson 3-9-1-8-0. 921 01:11:26,757 --> 01:11:31,820 No, I'm perfectly serious. The President of the United States. 922 01:11:31,895 --> 01:11:34,796 I'm sorry, I haven't got enough change. 923 01:11:34,865 --> 01:11:38,301 Could you make this a collect call, Operator? 924 01:11:50,247 --> 01:11:53,876 Just one second, Operator. They won't accept the call. 925 01:11:53,951 --> 01:11:55,851 Have you got 55 cents? 926 01:11:55,919 --> 01:11:58,945 Do you think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket? 927 01:12:01,325 --> 01:12:04,226 Operator, look. 928 01:12:04,294 --> 01:12:07,786 Is it possible to make this an ordinary trunk call? 929 01:12:07,865 --> 01:12:10,629 Well, what do you call it? You know-- 930 01:12:10,701 --> 01:12:13,693 Oh, station-to-station. 931 01:12:17,808 --> 01:12:21,300 Oh, blast! I'm still 20 cents short. 932 01:12:23,180 --> 01:12:26,616 Operator, hold on. I shan't keep you a second. 933 01:12:26,683 --> 01:12:30,847 Colonel, that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. 934 01:12:30,921 --> 01:12:32,980 There may be change in there. 935 01:12:36,526 --> 01:12:37,993 That's private property. 936 01:12:38,061 --> 01:12:40,996 Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you... 937 01:12:41,064 --> 01:12:43,760 your frame outlook, way of life and everything... 938 01:12:43,834 --> 01:12:48,362 when they learn you have obstructed a phone call to the president? 939 01:12:48,438 --> 01:12:52,431 Can you imagine? Shoot it off! 940 01:12:52,509 --> 01:12:56,138 Shoot with the gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit! 941 01:12:56,213 --> 01:12:59,671 Okay, I'm gonna get your money for you. 942 01:12:59,750 --> 01:13:03,880 But if you don't get the president on the phone, you know what's gonna happen? 943 01:13:03,954 --> 01:13:07,549 You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company. 944 01:13:16,867 --> 01:13:19,802 This is SAC Communications Control. 945 01:13:19,870 --> 01:13:23,271 The recall code O.P.E... 946 01:13:23,340 --> 01:13:25,274 is being acknowledged "roger"... 947 01:13:25,342 --> 01:13:30,245 by elements of the 8-4-3 Bomb Wing. 948 01:13:30,314 --> 01:13:32,305 These are the details. 949 01:13:32,382 --> 01:13:36,944 Missions 12, 22, 30 and 38... 950 01:13:37,020 --> 01:13:40,581 are reported destroyed by enemy action. 951 01:13:40,657 --> 01:13:45,253 All other missions have acknowledged recall code. 952 01:13:45,329 --> 01:13:47,263 This is SAC Communications Control. 953 01:13:47,331 --> 01:13:48,992 Over and out. 954 01:13:49,066 --> 01:13:50,966 Gentlemen, gentlemen. 955 01:13:51,034 --> 01:13:53,434 Gentlemen. 956 01:13:53,503 --> 01:13:55,437 Mr.President. 957 01:13:55,505 --> 01:13:57,598 I'm not a sentimentalist by nature... 958 01:13:57,674 --> 01:14:00,939 but I think I know what's in every heart in this room. 959 01:14:01,011 --> 01:14:04,845 I think we all ought to bow our heads... 960 01:14:04,915 --> 01:14:06,974 and give a prayer of thanks for our deliverance. 961 01:14:07,050 --> 01:14:08,483 Lord... 962 01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:14,316 we have heard the wings of the Angel of Death... 963 01:14:14,391 --> 01:14:17,258 fluttering over our heads from the Valley of Fear. 964 01:14:17,327 --> 01:14:19,989 You have seen fit to deliver us from the forces of evil-- 965 01:14:20,063 --> 01:14:21,655 Excuse me, sir. 966 01:14:21,732 --> 01:14:24,860 Premier Kissoff's calling again and he's hopping mad. 967 01:14:31,608 --> 01:14:35,544 Fuel flow on active engines and leakage has increased. 968 01:14:35,612 --> 01:14:39,639 Now works out at 2-0-5. 969 01:14:40,717 --> 01:14:42,708 Estimate remaining fuel... 970 01:14:42,786 --> 01:14:46,688 at 8-7-9-0. 971 01:14:50,027 --> 01:14:53,895 Roger. Confirm 2-0-5 per minute... 972 01:14:53,964 --> 01:14:58,025 and remaining fuel 8-7-9-0. 973 01:15:04,541 --> 01:15:08,637 No, no, Dimitri, there must be some mistake. 974 01:15:08,712 --> 01:15:10,771 No, I'm certain of that. 975 01:15:10,847 --> 01:15:15,045 I'm perfectly certain of that, Dimitri. 976 01:15:15,118 --> 01:15:18,019 Just a second. You know what he says? 977 01:15:18,088 --> 01:15:20,352 He says one of the planes hasn't turned back. 978 01:15:20,424 --> 01:15:23,018 He says according to information forwarded by our Air Staffs... 979 01:15:23,093 --> 01:15:26,028 it's headed for the missile complex at Laputa. 980 01:15:29,032 --> 01:15:31,967 That's impossible, Mr.President. 981 01:15:32,035 --> 01:15:34,094 I mean, look at the big board. 982 01:15:34,171 --> 01:15:37,299 Thirty-four planes, 30 recalls acknowledged and four splashes... 983 01:15:37,374 --> 01:15:40,241 and one of them was targeted for Laputa. 984 01:15:43,180 --> 01:15:46,377 Dimitri, look, we've got an acknowledgement from every plane... 985 01:15:46,450 --> 01:15:49,715 except the four you've shot down. 986 01:15:57,060 --> 01:15:59,460 Hang on a second, Dimitri. 987 01:15:59,529 --> 01:16:02,862 He says their air defense now only claims three aircraft confirmed. 988 01:16:02,933 --> 01:16:05,401 The fourth may only be damaged. 989 01:16:07,571 --> 01:16:09,505 Mr.President... 990 01:16:09,573 --> 01:16:11,939 I'm beginnin' to smell a big, fat Commie rat. 991 01:16:12,008 --> 01:16:15,876 I mean, supposin' Kissoff is lyin' about that fourth plane... 992 01:16:15,946 --> 01:16:18,107 just lookin' for an excuse to clobber us? 993 01:16:18,181 --> 01:16:20,615 If the spaghetti hits the fan, we're in trouble. 994 01:16:24,721 --> 01:16:27,315 Dimitri, look, if this report is true... 995 01:16:27,390 --> 01:16:31,019 and the plane manages to bomb the target... 996 01:16:31,094 --> 01:16:35,326 is this gonna set off the doomsday machine? 997 01:16:38,568 --> 01:16:40,536 Are you sure? 998 01:16:41,738 --> 01:16:46,300 Well, I guess you're just gonna have to get that plane, Dimitri. 999 01:16:46,376 --> 01:16:49,436 I'm sorry they're jamming your radar and flying so low... 1000 01:16:49,513 --> 01:16:51,708 but they're trained to do it. 1001 01:16:51,781 --> 01:16:53,442 It's initiative. 1002 01:16:55,152 --> 01:16:58,019 Look, Dimitri, you know exactly where they're going... 1003 01:16:58,088 --> 01:17:01,251 and I'm sure your entire air defense can stop a single plane. 1004 01:17:04,427 --> 01:17:09,023 It's not gonna help either one of us if the doomsday machine goes off, is it? 1005 01:17:10,567 --> 01:17:15,834 There's no point in you getting hysterical at a moment like this! 1006 01:17:15,906 --> 01:17:20,138 Keep your feet on the ground when you're talking, Dimitri. 1007 01:17:20,210 --> 01:17:22,474 I am not-- I am not getting-- 1008 01:17:22,546 --> 01:17:24,980 No, Dimitri, I'm just worried. 1009 01:17:25,048 --> 01:17:26,948 That's all. 1010 01:17:27,017 --> 01:17:30,077 Now look, if our Air Staffs say its primary target is Laputa... 1011 01:17:30,153 --> 01:17:34,112 and its secondary target is Borchov, it's true. 1012 01:17:34,191 --> 01:17:35,624 You gotta believe it! 1013 01:17:35,692 --> 01:17:39,423 Dimitri, can I give you just one word-- 1014 01:17:39,496 --> 01:17:42,829 Can I give you just one word of advice, Dimitri? 1015 01:17:42,899 --> 01:17:44,560 Listen, Dimitri. 1016 01:17:44,634 --> 01:17:48,195 Put everything you've got into those two sectors, and you can't miss! 1017 01:17:54,578 --> 01:17:58,241 Sir, if we continue to lose fuel at the present rate... 1018 01:17:58,315 --> 01:18:02,445 I estimate we only have 38 minutes flying time... 1019 01:18:02,519 --> 01:18:04,987 which will not even take us as far as the primary. 1020 01:18:05,055 --> 01:18:08,991 Doggone it, Sweets, you told me that you could get me to the primary! 1021 01:18:09,059 --> 01:18:12,893 I'm sorry, sir. That estimate was based on the original loss rate factor... 1022 01:18:12,963 --> 01:18:14,760 not at 2-0-5. 1023 01:18:14,831 --> 01:18:17,095 I don't give a hoot in hell how you do it... 1024 01:18:17,167 --> 01:18:19,328 you just get me to the primary, you hear? 1025 01:18:19,402 --> 01:18:22,838 I'm sorry, sir, but those are the figures. 1026 01:18:22,906 --> 01:18:26,171 We'll be lucky to reach weather ship at Tango Delta. 1027 01:18:26,243 --> 01:18:28,438 Well, shoot! 1028 01:18:28,511 --> 01:18:32,845 We ain't come this far just to dump this thing in the drink. 1029 01:18:32,916 --> 01:18:34,907 What's the nearest target of opportunity? 1030 01:18:43,693 --> 01:18:46,423 Sir, if the rate of loss does not increase... 1031 01:18:46,496 --> 01:18:50,262 we have a chance to reach target 3-8-4... 1032 01:18:50,333 --> 01:18:55,168 grid coordinate 0-0-3-6-9-1... 1033 01:18:55,238 --> 01:18:59,106 and possibly make it from there to the Tango Delta weather ship. 1034 01:18:59,175 --> 01:19:01,302 What kind of a target is that, anyhow? 1035 01:19:01,378 --> 01:19:05,314 Sir, that's the I.C.B.M. complex at Kotloss. 1036 01:19:05,382 --> 01:19:11,116 All right. Designating new target: 3-8-4. 1037 01:19:11,187 --> 01:19:14,179 Give me a headin' on that just as soon as you get it worked out. 1038 01:19:26,369 --> 01:19:31,238 We'll keep our fingers crossed. Remember, we're all in this together. 1039 01:19:31,308 --> 01:19:35,142 We're right behind you, we're with you all the way. 1040 01:19:35,211 --> 01:19:38,942 Yes. We'll keep the line open. 1041 01:19:39,015 --> 01:19:40,448 All right, Dimitri. 1042 01:19:42,819 --> 01:19:44,252 General Turgidson... 1043 01:19:44,321 --> 01:19:47,552 is there really a chance for that plane to get through? 1044 01:19:49,259 --> 01:19:51,693 Mr.President, if I may speak freely. 1045 01:19:51,761 --> 01:19:55,390 The Ruskie talks big, but frankly we think he's short of know-how. 1046 01:19:55,465 --> 01:19:59,959 You can't expect ignorant peons to understand a machine like our boys. 1047 01:20:00,036 --> 01:20:02,470 That's not meant as an insult, Mr.Ambassador. 1048 01:20:02,539 --> 01:20:05,133 We all know how much guts the average Ruskie's got. 1049 01:20:05,208 --> 01:20:08,336 Look at all of them Nazis killed off, and they still wouldn't quit! 1050 01:20:08,411 --> 01:20:10,311 Can't you stick to the point? 1051 01:20:10,380 --> 01:20:14,111 Well, sir, if the pilot's good, see-- 1052 01:20:14,184 --> 01:20:18,348 I mean, if he's really sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low. 1053 01:20:18,421 --> 01:20:22,915 You oughta see it! It's a sight! A big plane like a 52! Vroom! 1054 01:20:22,992 --> 01:20:26,052 Its jet exhaust fryin' chickens in the barnyard! 1055 01:20:26,129 --> 01:20:29,257 - But has he got a chance? - Has he got a chance? 1056 01:20:29,332 --> 01:20:30,765 Hell, ye-- 1057 01:20:56,259 --> 01:20:57,692 Navigator to Captain. 1058 01:20:57,761 --> 01:21:02,289 Approaching target at distance 1-0 miles. 1059 01:21:02,365 --> 01:21:05,698 Switch from green grid to target orange. 1060 01:21:05,769 --> 01:21:08,863 Roger. Ready for final bomb run check. 1061 01:21:08,938 --> 01:21:10,371 - Take over, Ace. - Roger. 1062 01:21:15,645 --> 01:21:18,136 - D.S.O. ready. - Bombardier ready, sir. 1063 01:21:18,214 --> 01:21:20,409 Bomb fusing, master safety on. 1064 01:21:20,483 --> 01:21:23,577 Electronic, barometric, time and impact. 1065 01:21:23,653 --> 01:21:25,985 Bomb fusing, master safeties on. 1066 01:21:26,055 --> 01:21:29,115 Electronic, barometric, time and impact. 1067 01:21:29,192 --> 01:21:32,787 Fuse for ground burst. Delay factor yellow three. 1068 01:21:32,862 --> 01:21:35,490 Fuse for ground burst. Delay factor yellow three. 1069 01:21:35,565 --> 01:21:38,329 Bomb fusing circuits one through four, test. 1070 01:21:38,401 --> 01:21:41,996 Bomb fusing circuits one through four, test. Lights on. 1071 01:21:42,071 --> 01:21:45,006 Bomb arming test lights on, one through four. 1072 01:21:45,074 --> 01:21:47,941 Bomb arming test lights on, one through four. 1073 01:21:48,011 --> 01:21:50,707 Engage primary trigger switch override. 1074 01:21:50,780 --> 01:21:53,908 Primary trigger switch override engaged. 1075 01:21:53,983 --> 01:21:56,543 Track indicators to maximum deflection. 1076 01:21:56,619 --> 01:21:59,053 Track indicators to maximum deflection. 1077 01:21:59,122 --> 01:22:02,319 Detonator set to zero altitude. 1078 01:22:02,392 --> 01:22:05,156 Detonator set to zero altitude. 1079 01:22:05,228 --> 01:22:06,889 Release first safety. 1080 01:22:11,201 --> 01:22:13,135 First safety released. 1081 01:22:14,504 --> 01:22:17,905 - First safety. - Release second safety. 1082 01:22:20,710 --> 01:22:22,610 Second safety released. 1083 01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:25,513 Second safety. 1084 01:22:33,056 --> 01:22:35,718 Check bomb door circuits one through four. 1085 01:22:46,302 --> 01:22:49,760 Uh, bomb door circuits... 1086 01:22:49,839 --> 01:22:52,467 negative function, lights red. 1087 01:22:52,542 --> 01:22:55,136 - Switch in backup circuits. - Roger. 1088 01:22:55,211 --> 01:22:59,170 Backup circuits switched in. Still negative function. 1089 01:22:59,249 --> 01:23:01,012 Engage emergency power. 1090 01:23:01,084 --> 01:23:03,416 Roger. 1091 01:23:03,486 --> 01:23:05,852 Emergency power on. Still negative function. 1092 01:23:07,891 --> 01:23:09,916 Operate manual override! 1093 01:23:11,528 --> 01:23:13,052 Roger. 1094 01:23:22,639 --> 01:23:25,107 Still negative function. 1095 01:23:25,174 --> 01:23:27,938 The Teleflex drive cable must be sheared away. 1096 01:23:28,011 --> 01:23:32,175 - Fire the explosive bolts! - Roger. 1097 01:23:46,696 --> 01:23:50,359 Still negative, sir. The operating circuits are dead, sir. 1098 01:23:55,772 --> 01:23:59,708 Stay on the bomb run, Ace. I'm goin' down below and see what I can do. 1099 01:24:12,655 --> 01:24:14,122 Stay on the bomb run. 1100 01:24:14,190 --> 01:24:18,388 I'm gonna get them doors open if it harelips everybody on Bear Creek! 1101 01:25:11,948 --> 01:25:14,849 Target orange grid reference checks. 1102 01:25:14,917 --> 01:25:17,215 Target distance: eight miles. 1103 01:25:17,286 --> 01:25:19,379 Roger. Eight miles. 1104 01:25:19,455 --> 01:25:21,787 Telemetric guidance computer into orange grid. 1105 01:25:21,858 --> 01:25:24,292 Telemetric guidance computer into orange grid. 1106 01:25:32,935 --> 01:25:35,495 Target distance: seven miles. 1107 01:25:35,571 --> 01:25:38,904 Correct track indicator: minus seven. 1108 01:25:38,975 --> 01:25:42,570 Roger. Seven miles. Check G.P.I. acceleration factor. 1109 01:25:42,645 --> 01:25:44,670 G.P.I. acceleration factor set. 1110 01:25:48,084 --> 01:25:50,552 Target distance: six miles. 1111 01:25:50,620 --> 01:25:55,250 Roger. Six miles. Pulse ident transponder active. 1112 01:25:55,324 --> 01:25:56,882 Pulse ident transponder active. 1113 01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:07,026 Target distance: five miles. 1114 01:26:07,103 --> 01:26:11,062 Five miles. Homing alignment factor to zero mode. 1115 01:26:11,140 --> 01:26:13,165 Homing alignment factor to zero mode. 1116 01:26:16,746 --> 01:26:19,271 Target distance: four miles. 1117 01:26:19,348 --> 01:26:21,043 Roger. Four miles. 1118 01:26:21,117 --> 01:26:24,018 Auto C.D.C. into manual Teleflex link. 1119 01:26:24,087 --> 01:26:26,681 Auto C.D.C. into manual Teleflex link. 1120 01:26:36,933 --> 01:26:39,458 Target distance: three miles. 1121 01:26:39,535 --> 01:26:42,026 Roger. Three miles. 1122 01:26:42,105 --> 01:26:45,768 Target in sight! Where in hell is Major Kong? 1123 01:27:09,532 --> 01:27:10,794 What about Major Kong? 1124 01:27:38,995 --> 01:27:42,692 Mr.President, I would not rule out the chance... 1125 01:27:42,765 --> 01:27:45,825 to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. 1126 01:27:45,902 --> 01:27:48,803 It would be quite easy... 1127 01:27:51,207 --> 01:27:56,304 at the bottom of some of our deeper mine shafts. 1128 01:27:56,379 --> 01:28:01,214 The radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep. 1129 01:28:01,284 --> 01:28:05,550 And in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in dwelling space... 1130 01:28:05,621 --> 01:28:07,555 could easily be provided. 1131 01:28:07,623 --> 01:28:10,387 How long would you have to stay down there? 1132 01:28:10,459 --> 01:28:14,327 Well, that's, you know-- 1133 01:28:14,397 --> 01:28:17,059 Cobalt thorium G. 1134 01:28:27,310 --> 01:28:31,144 Radioactive half-life of-- 1135 01:28:33,216 --> 01:28:37,949 I would think that possibly one hundred years. 1136 01:28:40,289 --> 01:28:44,282 You mean, people could actually stay down there for 100 years? 1137 01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:46,590 It would not be difficult, Mein Fuhrer. 1138 01:28:46,662 --> 01:28:48,892 Nuclear reactors could-- 1139 01:28:48,965 --> 01:28:51,331 I'm sorry, Mr.President. 1140 01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:55,200 Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. 1141 01:28:55,271 --> 01:28:58,104 Greenhouses could maintain plant life. 1142 01:28:58,174 --> 01:29:01,769 Animals could be bred and slaughtered. 1143 01:29:01,844 --> 01:29:06,281 A quick survey would have to be made of the available mine sites in the country. 1144 01:29:06,349 --> 01:29:10,149 But I would guess that a dwelling space... 1145 01:29:10,219 --> 01:29:13,882 for several hundred thousand of our people could easily be provided. 1146 01:29:13,956 --> 01:29:17,084 Well, I would hate to have to decide... 1147 01:29:17,159 --> 01:29:20,060 who stays up and who goes down. 1148 01:29:20,129 --> 01:29:24,031 Well, that would not be necessary, Mr.President. 1149 01:29:24,100 --> 01:29:26,967 It could easily be accomplished with a computer. 1150 01:29:27,036 --> 01:29:29,334 And the computer could be set and programmed... 1151 01:29:29,405 --> 01:29:32,465 to accept factors from youth, health... 1152 01:29:32,541 --> 01:29:35,704 sexual fertility, intelligence... 1153 01:29:35,778 --> 01:29:38,269 and a cross-section of necessary skills. 1154 01:29:38,347 --> 01:29:40,611 Of course, it would be absolutely vital... 1155 01:29:40,683 --> 01:29:44,642 that our top government and military men be included... 1156 01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:49,555 to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. 1157 01:29:55,598 --> 01:29:58,533 Naturally, they would breed prodigiously. 1158 01:29:58,601 --> 01:30:01,399 There would be much time and little to do. 1159 01:30:03,005 --> 01:30:07,942 But with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of, say... 1160 01:30:08,010 --> 01:30:10,774 ten females to each male... 1161 01:30:10,846 --> 01:30:15,476 they could then work their way back to the present gross national product... 1162 01:30:15,551 --> 01:30:17,314 within 20 years. 1163 01:30:18,521 --> 01:30:21,251 But look, Doctor. Wouldn't this nucleus of survivors... 1164 01:30:21,324 --> 01:30:26,421 be so grief-stricken and anguished that they... 1165 01:30:26,495 --> 01:30:29,987 well, envy the dead and not want to go on living? 1166 01:30:30,066 --> 01:30:32,899 No, sir. Excuse me. 1167 01:30:42,178 --> 01:30:46,114 When they go down into the mine, everyone would still be alive. 1168 01:30:46,182 --> 01:30:48,275 There would be no shocking memories... 1169 01:30:48,351 --> 01:30:53,015 and the prevailing emotion will be one of nostalgia for those left behind... 1170 01:30:53,089 --> 01:30:55,956 combined with a spirt of... 1171 01:30:56,025 --> 01:30:58,459 bold curiosity for the adventure ahead! 1172 01:31:15,978 --> 01:31:17,912 Doctor... 1173 01:31:20,116 --> 01:31:25,554 you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. 1174 01:31:25,621 --> 01:31:28,749 Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment... 1175 01:31:28,824 --> 01:31:32,624 of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship? 1176 01:31:32,695 --> 01:31:36,324 I mean, as far as men were concerned? 1177 01:31:36,399 --> 01:31:37,764 Regrettably, yes. 1178 01:31:37,833 --> 01:31:43,203 But it is a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. 1179 01:31:43,272 --> 01:31:48,266 I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... 1180 01:31:50,046 --> 01:31:51,980 service along these lines... 1181 01:31:52,048 --> 01:31:55,848 the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics... 1182 01:31:55,918 --> 01:31:59,684 which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature. 1183 01:31:59,755 --> 01:32:03,589 I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor. 1184 01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:06,193 Thank you, sir. 1185 01:32:06,262 --> 01:32:09,231 We ought to look at this from the military point of view. 1186 01:32:09,298 --> 01:32:13,234 I mean, supposing the Ruskies... 1187 01:32:13,302 --> 01:32:16,237 stashed away some big bombs, see, and we didn't? 1188 01:32:16,305 --> 01:32:19,206 When they come out in 100 years, they could take over! 1189 01:32:19,275 --> 01:32:21,038 I agree, Mr.President. 1190 01:32:21,110 --> 01:32:24,705 They might try a sneak attack so they could take over our mine shaft space. 1191 01:32:24,780 --> 01:32:29,410 It'd be extremely naive of us to imagine that these new developments... 1192 01:32:29,485 --> 01:32:32,420 are gonna cause any change in Soviet expansionist policy! 1193 01:32:32,488 --> 01:32:35,321 I mean, we must be increasingly on the alert... 1194 01:32:35,391 --> 01:32:37,916 to prevent them from taking over other mine shaft space... 1195 01:32:37,993 --> 01:32:39,927 in order to breed more prodigiously than we do... 1196 01:32:39,995 --> 01:32:43,123 thus knocking us out through superior numbers when we emerge! 1197 01:32:43,199 --> 01:32:47,295 Mr.President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap! 1198 01:32:47,369 --> 01:32:49,462 Sir! 1199 01:32:49,538 --> 01:32:51,802 I have a plan-- 1200 01:32:53,342 --> 01:32:55,674 Mein Fuhrer... 1201 01:32:55,744 --> 01:32:58,338 I can walk!