The Peacemaker

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What happened ?

I don't know, Dr. Kelly. Please come with me, ma'am.

I've got estimates on cloud size comin' through on line six.

- What've we got ? - NORAD's got R4 going over sector 9877.

It's been localized. Sixty degrees longitude, fifty lat.

- What about N.P.I.C. ? - Ground blast 40 minutes ago in the Ural Mountains.

Two trains collided. One was carrying warheads to Cherbynsk.

- Nice hair. Very au naturel. - Jesus.

Nuclear forces are going from DEFCON four to DEFCON three.

Secured faxes comin' in now.

N.M.C.C.'s concerned the Russians are gonna use this incident...

to veil troop movements into Chechnya and Georgia.

That's not our problem. Estimates from Livermore ?

Five to seven hundred kilotons.

Mark Appleton's looking for you. He's upstairs.

- All current data on my desk ? - Yes.

- I'm gonna need a minute. - Radiation pattern projections in ?

- Yeah, but those aren't confirmed. - Get them confirmed.

Russia. What a fucking mess. God, I miss the Cold War.

Get Essler down here now. I need a translator.

Essler's gone. He quit to run J.P.L.

- Who did we appoint ? - My memo's sitting on your desk.

- Who the hell's in charge down there ? - Mark ?

Mark ? Excuse me.

Sorry. Forget Chernobyl. This is-- This is huge.

Dr. Julia Kelly, Acting Chair, Nuclear Smuggling Group.

- You know Terry Hamilton, National Security Advisor. - Yes, sir.

- We met at last year's Christmas party. - I'm briefing the president.

I need to explain how, with our own START team there,

a goddamn accident like this could happen.

It wasn't an accident, sir.

I'm sorry ?

We believe that train was carrying SS18s.

- SS18s pencil out at One Point Safe. - What's she saying ?

It means if you fire a bullet directly into the warhead,

there's less than a one-in-a-million chance of the bomb going off.

The warhead has to be ignited by its own nuclear trigger.

Would you hold this, please ? Here we have the satellite imagery.

This is the two trains approaching, and here's the collision itself.

Now check out the field of regard.

These two shots are at the same height because they occurred at the same time.

Look at the blast. It's two degrees higher,

after the satellites passed over.

Elapsed time between shots ?

Between the train wreck and the detonation, 4 minutes.

Somebody set that nuclear weapon off. This was a terrorist act.

Full N.S.C. briefing at 9:00 a.m.

The Russians' accident story will stand for now. No leaks to the press.

Nobody shows up on Nightline. Doctor-- ?

Kelly.

I'm putting your group on point until I find a replacement.

Yes, sir. Oh.

Get me the latest satellite overviews, and keep the updates coming.

Okay, uh, State, we're gonna need talking points for the president.

We're also gonna need to know anybody that might want to detonate a nuke on Russian soil.

General, I'm gonna need a military liaison...

with intel background and Russian contacts.

- You've got it. - Oh, and, General,

make sure he's willing to take orders from a woman.

Colonel Devoe, let's deal with the events of May 18.

You were arrested in a bar brawl...

in a Moscow disco called Night Crawler ?

Yes, ma'am, that's correct.

And you were in the company of a prostitute...

and a Russian army colonel named...

Dimitri Vertikoff ?

Yes, ma'am, that is also correct.

Dimitri and I went into this bar to try and buy some nerve gas...

off this ex-K.G.B. guy that we had heard...

was selling black market surplus munitions to lraq.

The fight started because, well, we'd run up a bit of a bar tab--

I believe the exact amount was $5,200 ?

Mm-hmm. Well, we had dinner, and I bought a couple of rounds.

Uh, Colonel Vertikoff identified the K.G.B. guy,

and we were able to stop the nerve gas from getting to lraq.

So how do you repay a man like that ?

- Sports utility vehicle ? - That's exactly right.

Dimitri has a teenage daughter. She likes to go four-wheeling.

I know this Ford guy in Maryland who cut me a great deal on these Explorers.

- I like the Bronco better myself. - Colonel, let me get this straight.

You spent taxpayers' money to buy and ship...

a Ford Explorer 8,000 miles...

to the teenage daughter of a Russian colonel ?

Yes, ma'am.

Think of it as exporting goodwill.

Your Russian is awful. Speak English.

- - It was stupid, understand ?

Your friends made this deal, but this is my operation.

Don't make me start thinking of why I don't need you.

- They will never let us through. - Of course they will.

Section 21-A, Nuclear Disaster Protocol.

One, secure area. Two, control debris.

Three, evacuate casualties.

Huh ?

But they would have the technical knowhow...

and should not be ruled out.

And moving on, we come to Shamil Basayev, a scientist.

He claims responsibility for having placed...

a canister of radioactive cesium in a park in Moscow last June,

but his underworld ties suggest he could be part of a much bigger operation.

Uh,

Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev,

Chechen leader since the Russians assassinated Dudayev.

He has threatened to attack Federation nuclear power plants.

There are other possibles on our terrorist list,

as outlined in section 4 of your packet.

Our reaction to the crisis is as follows.

We have initiated an intelligence directive...

with the Nuclear Smuggling Group acting as hub.

D.I.A. and N.R.O., heads up. You'll continue responsibility for primary SAT imagery--

Excuse me, ma'am. I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt.

- Yes ? - Um, these terrorists,

have they asked for anything, a list of demands ?

Russians out of Chechnya ? That sort of thing ?

No, but it's not unusual for days, even weeks to go by...

before a claim of responsibility is made.

- Yeah. - Air mob command--

Uh, excuse me again, ma'am. I'm sorry.

Uh, that's a satellite shot of the two trains just before they collided.

Dr. Kelly, perhaps you should discuss Special Op possibilities ?

Right. General Garnett has Special Operations command at full alert.

Excuse me.

Excuse me. I'm sorry to keep interrupting.

You see these blobs right here at one-meter resolution ?

Those are people jumping off the passenger train before it crashes.

Now take a look at that train. That's the one with the nuke.

Nobody's jumpin' off that. Why not ?

They were already dead.

How many warheads were on that train ?

-The Russians haven't confirmed. -So we have no idea of potential yield.

Are you suggesting this was a robbery ?

I'm suggesting that whoever did this...

had access to Russian satellite positioning intel.

That leaves out your Chechen rebels.

I would like to point out...

that 1,500 people were killed last night.

You don't do that unless you're trying to make a very profound statement.

Do you know how much a functioning nuke is worth on the open market ?

Minimum $200 million, cash.

$200 million makes for a very profound statement.

Now, I'm sorry, ma'am. The detonation was a smoke screen.

This was a hijacking, and whoever stole these things...

got off the bus a long way back.

Well, we will certainly be considering your theory.

Thank you very much.

Well, it's just an opinion.

Whoever has current data on the blast, I need it on my desk A.S.A.P.

You got it.

Ken, try to get Russian Missile Command on the phone, please.

- First reports in say the explosion was seen 500 miles-- - Anything on D.I.A. ?