Fail Safe

Synopsis

A mechanical malfunction in the Strategic Air Command computers transmits an accidental, un-recallable nuclear attack code to an American Vindicator supersonic bomber wing ordered to drop two twenty-megaton thermonuclear bombs on Moscow, leaving the U.S. President inside an underground White House bunker on the red telephone with the Soviet Premier in a desperate effort to shoot down his own bombers, offering a catastrophic moral sacrifice to prevent total planetary annihilation. Sidney Lumet's chilling, completely score-less Cold War nuclear nightmare starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau.