Night Watch

Episode aired May 20, 2018
TV-14TV-14
43m

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8.4/10

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Téa Leoni and Tim Daly in Madam Secretary (2014)

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Elizabeth and the cabinet must brace for fallout after President Dalton announces a retaliatory nuclear strike on a nation that has launched missiles at the US.Elizabeth and the cabinet must brace for fallout after President Dalton announces a retaliatory nuclear strike on a nation that has launched missiles at the US.Elizabeth and the cabinet must brace for fallout after President Dalton announces a retaliatory nuclear strike on a nation that has launched missiles at the US.

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Trivia
The official name of the "Nuclear Football" is the "President's Emergency Satchel".

Goofs
U.S Strategic Command, Sarpy County, Nebraska is Offutt, AFB in Bellevue Nebraska. The AFB shown is actually Altus AFB, in Altus, Oklahoma.

Quotes
Jay Whitman: [at happy hour after a close call with the nuclear defense system] Let me just tell you what that particular privilege buys you.
Kat Sandoval: Mm hmm, tell him.
Jay Whitman: You get whisked away, without saying goodbye to your friends and family. And then you get to be in an underground bunker with generals and top government brass for weeks or months, eating MREs and drinking ionized water. You emerge after the radiation's reduced to livable levels. At which point you get to try to pick out your loved ones bones from the rubble and ash. And then you spend however many years running the bombed-out husk of the former United Stats government under martial law. That's not a list that you wanna be on.

Connections
References The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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10/10

Television at its very best! Rivetingly engaging.

Amazingly excellent. Kudos to the creators for their creativity, commitment and courage in presenting a really big issue at a humanly engaging scale.

Note that in the 1979 incident alluded to in the show, the US came within 14 minutes of a catastrophic nuclear war due to a scenario like the one portrayed, and again in 1980 due to the failure of a 46 cent computer chip. Unfortunately, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, this sort of risk is greater today than ever. Let's hope that this programme inspires good diplomacy and political action.

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