i at first think this little fantasy excursion would be a little entertaining . i be wrong . a good cast ( roy scheider a the president ) do not help it any . the story have every conceivable possible bad case scenario that could take place in a terrorist nuclear disaster . and none of it could possibly happen . true the kidnapping of the president could only be accomplish with the inside help of a traitor in the secret service ( ala air force one ) and but everything they depict regard the football and the helplessness of our country if be to fall into enemy hand be ludicrous to the nth degree . seriously and not even the president can fully over ride our missile control . the case be only use to relay order . in this situation and our system would have completely delete the code and the whole thing would go nowhere . the destruction of beijing couldn not happen there would not have be a missile launch because the silo crew would have be instruct not to ( communication include a hardwired system ) . there be just too many safe guard to prevent such a thing from happen . true and film like fail safe and strangelove give some credibility to the concept of u lose control of the system . but this film go too far and fail to suspend my concept of the unbelievable . and that make the experience a waste of the viewer time . this film be a failure .