:23:00
Then they take over,
they start creating situations.
:23:02
- Not necessarily.
- There's always the chance.
:23:05
We have checks and counterchecks
on everything.
:23:09
Who checks the checker?
:23:10
Where's the end ofthe line?
Who's got the responsibility?
:23:13
- The president.
- No one.
:23:15
He can't know everything that's
going on. It's too complicated.
:23:18
Ifyou want to know,
that's what really bothers me.
:23:21
The only thing everyone can agree on
is that no one's responsible.
:23:30
Is something wrong, General?
:23:32
UFO sighted
near Hudson's Bay, sir.
:23:36
Whatyou're seeing, gentlemen,
is an unidentified flying object...
:23:38
picked up by our radar.
:23:40
Until we get positive identification,
we regard it as hostile.
:23:44
What doyou do about it?
:23:45
We've gone to Condition Blue,
which is our lowest form ofreadiness.
:23:49
At the same time, we've informed
those Vindicator bombers...
:23:51
thatyou saw in the air before.
:23:54
Theywill now start to fly
toward their fail-safe points.
:23:58
'' Fail-safe''?
:24:01
Fixed points in the sky
on the perimeter ofthe Soviet Union...
:24:03
which are changed from day to day.
:24:05
The planes will fly to those points
and orbit...
:24:07
until they get
a positive order to go in.
:24:10
And ifthey don't get that order?
:24:11
They return to their normal patrols.
:24:14
In short, we can't go to war
except on an express order.
:24:17
How do they get that order,
by radio?
:24:19
Yes, and through a box we call
the fail-safe box aboard each plane...
:24:23
which can only be activated
at the express order ofthe president.
:24:26
- He has to tell them?
- Not directly.
:24:29
His voice can be imitated.
:24:31
Hejust gives the order
and the rest is done electronically.
:24:34
No one can interfere
with the fail-safe box, Mr. Raskob.
:24:40
All those new blips you see
are fighter planes...
:24:42
going after
the unidentified object.
:24:44
Colonel Cascio,
tight scale, please.
:24:50
You seem pretty cool about this,
General. Does it happen often?
:24:53
About six times a month.
:24:55
Probably an airliner offcourse.
:24:58
- And ifit isn't?
- Then it's something else.