1 00:00:05,770 --> 00:00:07,315 Previously on The West Wing: 2 00:00:07,567 --> 00:00:11,026 - Ben on five. Is he really a park ranger? - Don't talk to him. 3 00:00:11,246 --> 00:00:14,039 - Put him on hold and find me if he calls. - lf? 4 00:00:14,256 --> 00:00:17,632 Russell comes out of the gate as a seltzer-bottle-squirting partisan. 5 00:00:18,059 --> 00:00:22,066 The happy warrior. The guy who puts the fun back in Democratic politics. 6 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:26,579 The speaker is "propulgating" a tax bill. We're never gonna get budgets passed. 7 00:00:26,922 --> 00:00:30,132 You guys are asking me to groom a backwater congressman. I can't. 8 00:00:30,308 --> 00:00:33,767 We didn't ask you to groom Russell for a presidential run. He asked you. 9 00:00:33,987 --> 00:00:37,279 - He was chosen by the president. - He was chosen by the Republicans! 10 00:00:54,553 --> 00:00:57,645 Yes. Please. 11 00:00:57,813 --> 00:00:59,810 Yeah, Leo. 12 00:01:07,846 --> 00:01:09,178 Ten-hut. 13 00:01:09,351 --> 00:01:11,348 - Good morning. - Good morning, sir. 14 00:01:11,525 --> 00:01:13,486 Or whatever 3 a.m. is. 15 00:01:13,657 --> 00:01:14,988 Please. 16 00:01:16,541 --> 00:01:18,419 Let's have a look. 17 00:01:20,136 --> 00:01:21,467 Where? 18 00:01:21,641 --> 00:01:23,971 Over the north-central Indian Ocean, sir. 19 00:01:24,149 --> 00:01:26,146 Not near anything. 20 00:01:26,783 --> 00:01:29,327 - You're sure? - It's the telltale double flash. 21 00:01:29,499 --> 00:01:33,506 All atmospheric detonations produce that unique signature, sir. 22 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:35,892 Initial one-millisecond flash, the fireball... 23 00:01:36,062 --> 00:01:39,486 ...which is then overtaken and obscured by the expanding shock front. 24 00:01:39,658 --> 00:01:42,416 - So it couldn't be anything else. - No. 25 00:01:42,584 --> 00:01:45,627 And no false alarms have ever been ascribed to the NDS. 26 00:01:45,803 --> 00:01:47,931 - Other sensors? - Still being analyzed... 27 00:01:48,102 --> 00:01:50,813 ...but both the x-ray and the EMP detectors... 28 00:01:50,987 --> 00:01:54,862 ...show readings consistent to atmospheric detonations. 29 00:01:55,459 --> 00:01:57,122 Who else knows? 30 00:01:57,340 --> 00:01:59,337 - Sir? - Who else in the world. 31 00:01:59,848 --> 00:02:03,475 The Russians and the Chinese have satellite detection capability for NUDET. 32 00:02:04,154 --> 00:02:06,567 - Nuclear detonation, sir. - Sir... 33 00:02:06,745 --> 00:02:08,742 ...no test was scheduled or reported... 34 00:02:08,961 --> 00:02:12,171 ...by the other six declared nuclear powers. 35 00:02:12,347 --> 00:02:14,143 Yeah. 36 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:18,694 There's a new member of the club. 37 00:03:07,777 --> 00:03:10,951 The mess isn't open. This is from the Secret Service command post. 38 00:03:12,626 --> 00:03:15,551 - lf it's too hot, they wrestle it. - CIA director is held up... 39 00:03:15,719 --> 00:03:17,181 I'm here. 40 00:03:17,350 --> 00:03:19,562 Sorry. Construction on Lee. 41 00:03:19,732 --> 00:03:22,526 - They do it at night. - Avoid snarling traffic. 44 00:03:28,093 --> 00:03:31,434 - We talk to Russia and China? - They agree about keeping this quiet. 45 00:03:31,605 --> 00:03:33,566 Whoever this was knew we'd pick it up. 46 00:03:33,778 --> 00:03:35,990 - Likely suspects? - North Koreans or Iran. 47 00:03:36,161 --> 00:03:38,539 - Yeah. - They've been heading down this road. 48 00:03:38,752 --> 00:03:41,844 - We didn't know either got this far. - We were sure about Korea. 49 00:03:42,055 --> 00:03:44,349 "Sure" is a word we don't throw around at Langley. 50 00:03:44,563 --> 00:03:47,440 There've been indications the North has nuclear weapons. 51 00:03:47,657 --> 00:03:49,868 - What about Iran? - The intel is sketchy. 52 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:53,463 - We know they've been working on it. - There's that other word. 53 00:03:53,634 --> 00:03:55,096 - "Know." - What we know... 54 00:03:55,265 --> 00:03:57,511 ...and are sure of is this happened. 55 00:03:57,689 --> 00:04:00,447 We're gonna need to focus less on semantic distinctions... 56 00:04:00,615 --> 00:04:03,457 ...and more on how this caught us so completely by surprise. 57 00:04:03,667 --> 00:04:05,914 We need to make contact. The Chinese for Korea? 58 00:04:06,426 --> 00:04:08,506 - Iran? - Usually the Italians or the Swiss. 59 00:04:08,893 --> 00:04:11,734 - No good. Don't want them in the loop. - The Russians, then. 60 00:04:11,902 --> 00:04:15,493 We can assume Moscow's not crazy about the idea of another nuclear state... 61 00:04:15,664 --> 00:04:19,291 ...in their neighborhood. - Sir, what if this wasn't a state? 62 00:04:19,677 --> 00:04:22,221 - A terror group? - No terrorists have the capability... 63 00:04:22,395 --> 00:04:23,976 ...for a test on this scale. 64 00:04:24,150 --> 00:04:27,907 Their nuclear event will be a suitcase bomb detonated in Manhattan. 65 00:04:28,121 --> 00:04:29,584 Or Pennsylvania Avenue. 66 00:04:29,752 --> 00:04:31,713 - Thank you, everyone. - Thank you. 67 00:04:31,884 --> 00:04:34,095 - Thank you, sir. - Thank you. 68 00:04:40,453 --> 00:04:42,950 - Rough with the director. - I'll send him a lollipop. 69 00:04:43,129 --> 00:04:45,673 You want your intelligence head focused, at his best. 70 00:04:45,845 --> 00:04:48,140 Guy couldn't find a clear route in at 4 a.m. 71 00:04:48,312 --> 00:04:51,023 I'm not over-brimming with confidence. 72 00:04:52,283 --> 00:04:55,790 - This is the nightmare. - Yeah. 73 00:04:57,383 --> 00:05:01,972 I thought when the Soviet Union fell, we could actually have disarmament. 74 00:05:02,149 --> 00:05:04,479 You go from trying to get rid of these weapons... 75 00:05:04,657 --> 00:05:07,034 ...to holding your breath one doesn't go off. 76 00:05:07,373 --> 00:05:10,132 Strike another goal off the list. 77 00:05:10,676 --> 00:05:13,304 We find out who this was, then what? 78 00:05:14,146 --> 00:05:15,560 We'll have to do something. 79 00:05:17,072 --> 00:05:19,533 I want a defense briefing on contingency plans. 80 00:05:19,706 --> 00:05:21,536 - We act, we'll need a statement. - Toby. 81 00:05:21,712 --> 00:05:23,709 - Sooner is better. - Okay. Oh, God. 82 00:05:23,886 --> 00:05:26,347 - What? - The vice president. 83 00:05:26,645 --> 00:05:28,142 Yeah. I'll brief him. 84 00:05:28,317 --> 00:05:30,993 Apologize. Tell him... 85 00:05:31,159 --> 00:05:33,536 I don't know what the hell to tell him. 86 00:05:40,356 --> 00:05:41,687 - Hey. - Morning. 87 00:05:41,861 --> 00:05:44,738 - So this meeting's a breakfast. - Okay. 88 00:05:44,913 --> 00:05:46,577 - So you have to eat. - I already ate. 89 00:05:46,752 --> 00:05:48,548 - Or else it's rude. - I'm not hungry. 90 00:05:48,716 --> 00:05:50,214 Or else it's rude. 91 00:05:50,389 --> 00:05:53,896 This order, soon as I get back. Why am I meeting with geeks from NASA? 92 00:05:54,067 --> 00:05:56,611 I'm sure they're not geeks. They're not all geeks. 93 00:05:56,784 --> 00:05:59,792 And it's to discuss the administration's space priorities. 94 00:05:59,961 --> 00:06:03,426 - Do we even have any space priorities? - Exactly. 95 00:06:05,907 --> 00:06:08,660 - Morning. - Good morning. 96 00:06:09,538 --> 00:06:10,867 You have nametags. 97 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,747 Haven't been here much these years. Thought it'd help. 98 00:06:13,962 --> 00:06:15,374 Right. Carl. 99 00:06:15,548 --> 00:06:16,877 I recommend the scones. 100 00:06:17,050 --> 00:06:19,044 - They're... - Out of this world? 101 00:06:20,055 --> 00:06:21,550 - Leo. - Mr. Vice President. 102 00:06:21,725 --> 00:06:23,849 - Please. - Thank you. 103 00:06:24,019 --> 00:06:25,431 What's up? 104 00:06:25,606 --> 00:06:29,440 Sir, this is to be kept in the strictest confidence. 105 00:06:29,612 --> 00:06:32,698 At approximately 2: 17 a.m. Eastern Time... 106 00:06:32,867 --> 00:06:34,992 ...a nuclear detonation was detected... 107 00:06:35,163 --> 00:06:38,498 ...by a DSP satellite over the Indian Ocean. 108 00:06:38,710 --> 00:06:40,040 Pakistan's attacked India. 109 00:06:40,255 --> 00:06:41,797 No, sir. This was a test. 110 00:06:42,091 --> 00:06:44,880 Pakistan being provocative. Shot-across-the-bow thing. 111 00:06:45,054 --> 00:06:48,508 It wasn't Pakistan. If you'll let me finish. No nation claimed credit. 112 00:06:48,685 --> 00:06:51,557 We're trying to ascertain who was responsible... 113 00:06:51,731 --> 00:06:54,818 ...but it appears there's a new player on the nuclear stage. 114 00:06:54,986 --> 00:06:56,316 Is India mobilizing? 115 00:06:57,032 --> 00:07:01,780 It was 1200 miles from India. India has no idea that it happened. 116 00:07:01,956 --> 00:07:04,366 - I don't... - Let me start again. 117 00:07:05,963 --> 00:07:07,292 Hang on. 118 00:07:07,465 --> 00:07:10,137 - It's him again. - Him, who? 119 00:07:10,387 --> 00:07:12,547 - Ben. Take a message. - Gets more persistent... 120 00:07:12,724 --> 00:07:14,100 ...they're gonna open a case. 121 00:07:14,727 --> 00:07:18,146 - Can I tell him you're not worth it? - We used to date. He knows better. 122 00:07:18,316 --> 00:07:19,645 Feeling frisky? 123 00:07:19,819 --> 00:07:23,605 - Remembrance of things past. - The briefing. Two things to deflect. 124 00:07:23,783 --> 00:07:26,822 New Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank. You can do it. 125 00:07:26,997 --> 00:07:29,454 We discourage new settlements, deplore terror... 126 00:07:29,626 --> 00:07:32,166 ...balance but not too much, no moral equivalence. 127 00:07:32,339 --> 00:07:34,333 - Greatest hits. - Golden oldies. Second. 128 00:07:34,510 --> 00:07:36,385 - RINOs. - Endangered, powdered horn... 129 00:07:36,554 --> 00:07:38,098 ...considered an aphrodisiac. 130 00:07:38,266 --> 00:07:40,390 - That where "horny" comes from? - Not precisely. 131 00:07:40,561 --> 00:07:42,222 It's... These aren't the animals. 132 00:07:42,397 --> 00:07:45,769 - It's Republicans in Name Only. - RINOs. Adorable. 133 00:07:45,944 --> 00:07:48,900 Right wing's new name for GOP members who voted with us. 134 00:07:49,075 --> 00:07:50,985 They're being targeted in the primaries. 135 00:07:51,161 --> 00:07:54,164 We're happy to stay out of that slap fight in the schoolyard. 136 00:07:54,333 --> 00:07:56,125 Make it "sandbox." 137 00:07:56,796 --> 00:08:00,416 Thanks, Leo. Don't hesitate to call on me if I can be useful in any way. 138 00:08:00,593 --> 00:08:03,086 Be sure to let you know, sir. 139 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,266 Leo. Anything I need to be aware of? 140 00:08:09,149 --> 00:08:11,689 I've been thinking, to build the VP's issue profile... 141 00:08:11,861 --> 00:08:15,030 ...I wonder if there's some policy the administration could give. 142 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,325 - Such as? - I have some notions, certainly. 143 00:08:17,496 --> 00:08:18,908 - Take it up with Toby. - Yeah. 144 00:08:19,082 --> 00:08:21,241 - He and l... - With him. That's what he does. 145 00:08:21,419 --> 00:08:25,633 If you two have problems, work them out. I'm not a couples therapist. 146 00:08:27,095 --> 00:08:28,590 Yeah. 147 00:08:28,764 --> 00:08:30,722 A probe must launch by then to use... 148 00:08:30,893 --> 00:08:33,516 ...Jupiter's gravitational field as a slingshot. 149 00:08:33,688 --> 00:08:36,977 The data gathered about Kuiper Belt objects would be invaluable. 150 00:08:37,153 --> 00:08:39,361 Listen, I appreciate your coming in... 151 00:08:39,531 --> 00:08:42,285 ...but you may be meeting with the wrong guy. 152 00:08:42,495 --> 00:08:46,281 My knowledge is like the old joke about the official announcing a new program. 153 00:08:46,459 --> 00:08:48,584 He says, "We're gonna go where no one's been. 154 00:08:48,755 --> 00:08:50,131 We're gonna land on the Sun." 155 00:08:50,883 --> 00:08:54,337 Reporter says, "But, sir, the Sun's a burning mass of fire." 156 00:08:54,556 --> 00:08:59,137 Official replies, "Thought of that. That's why we're gonna go at night." 157 00:09:02,235 --> 00:09:05,523 What I know is politics. Public perception. 158 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:08,192 And the image of NASA is not good. 159 00:09:08,412 --> 00:09:10,287 Telescopes launched that can't focus. 160 00:09:10,457 --> 00:09:14,623 Planetary probes that crash because engineers mixed up meters and feet. 161 00:09:14,798 --> 00:09:17,171 The only time NASA makes the front page anymore... 162 00:09:17,344 --> 00:09:20,679 ...is when something goes wrong. You need to get off the front page. 163 00:09:20,891 --> 00:09:25,140 This administration has only one space priority: that you guys stop screwing up. 164 00:09:25,982 --> 00:09:27,976 Thanks for your time. 165 00:09:30,782 --> 00:09:34,117 Will's gonna come to you about a policy brief for the vice president. 166 00:09:34,287 --> 00:09:37,290 Unfortunately, everything we have we actually care about. 167 00:09:37,459 --> 00:09:39,453 - Give him something. - What can he handle? 168 00:09:39,629 --> 00:09:41,089 - Potholes. - Infrastructure? 169 00:09:41,257 --> 00:09:43,880 No, I mean actual potholes. 170 00:09:44,053 --> 00:09:46,177 On, I don't know, the interstate. 171 00:09:46,349 --> 00:09:48,557 Come up with something low profile and easy. 172 00:09:48,727 --> 00:09:51,018 Keep him out from underfoot. 173 00:09:51,190 --> 00:09:53,517 There's another thing. 174 00:09:57,867 --> 00:10:00,088 We got trouble, Toby. 175 00:10:00,470 --> 00:10:04,961 DPS satellite noted an atmospheric nuclear detonation... 176 00:10:05,132 --> 00:10:08,188 ...this morning at 2: 17 a.m. 177 00:10:14,788 --> 00:10:16,865 You go see the vice president? 178 00:10:17,041 --> 00:10:20,576 When I briefed him, he kind of tilted his head... 179 00:10:20,754 --> 00:10:22,912 - I'll update him after. - Sir? 180 00:10:23,089 --> 00:10:24,714 Everyone's here. 181 00:10:25,049 --> 00:10:26,674 You can come in. 182 00:10:31,057 --> 00:10:32,385 Where are we? 183 00:10:32,558 --> 00:10:34,681 Chinese have no indication Korea did this. 184 00:10:35,062 --> 00:10:37,434 Beijing feels comfortable ruling out North Korea. 185 00:10:37,647 --> 00:10:39,356 - What do we think? - Good and bad. 186 00:10:39,524 --> 00:10:41,601 We think North Korea's got two bombs. 187 00:10:41,777 --> 00:10:44,102 - Probably more. - Please let that be the bad news. 188 00:10:44,321 --> 00:10:47,773 We also believe their technology's so advanced they don't need tests. 189 00:10:47,992 --> 00:10:50,199 Why does the good news make me feel worse? 190 00:10:50,369 --> 00:10:52,197 - Iran. - Moscow doesn't think so. 191 00:10:52,372 --> 00:10:54,164 They might be covering their own ass. 192 00:10:54,334 --> 00:10:57,287 There's rumors about three missing warheads from Kazakhstan... 193 00:10:57,461 --> 00:10:59,703 ...that supposedly wound up in Iran. 194 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:01,375 Rumors. 195 00:11:01,549 --> 00:11:04,123 Persistent ones. That I get from your people. 196 00:11:04,303 --> 00:11:08,550 The IAEA report said Iran's had a secret nuclear program for the past 18 years. 197 00:11:08,724 --> 00:11:10,302 It makes more geographic sense. 198 00:11:10,518 --> 00:11:13,056 The Korean peninsula's 4000 miles from the blast site. 199 00:11:13,271 --> 00:11:15,347 What it's near is Iran. 200 00:11:15,523 --> 00:11:17,647 Sir, given the volatility of the region... 201 00:11:17,860 --> 00:11:20,316 ...a secret test would be how Iran would proceed. 202 00:11:20,987 --> 00:11:22,946 All right, put our cards on the table. 203 00:11:23,116 --> 00:11:25,488 What helped keep the Cold War cold... 204 00:11:25,660 --> 00:11:29,112 ...was a sense of restraint that these weapons were too terrible to use. 205 00:11:29,331 --> 00:11:31,122 That won't exist in jihadists... 206 00:11:31,291 --> 00:11:34,162 ...who strap bombs to their chests and enter nightclubs. 207 00:11:34,336 --> 00:11:37,421 There are moderate elements on the ascendancy in Iran. 208 00:11:37,590 --> 00:11:40,211 "In the Koran, God commanded to kill the wicked... 209 00:11:40,553 --> 00:11:43,422 ...and those who do not see the rights of the oppressed. 210 00:11:43,597 --> 00:11:47,430 If we abide by the Koran, all of us should mobilize to kill." 211 00:11:47,601 --> 00:11:50,093 Televised address by President Alijani. 212 00:11:50,272 --> 00:11:51,896 Moderate. 213 00:11:56,069 --> 00:12:00,040 Mr. Slattery, have the Iranian ambassador to the U.N. fly down... 214 00:12:00,262 --> 00:12:02,264 ...and meet with you at the Swiss embassy. 215 00:12:02,442 --> 00:12:04,242 - Thank you, Mr. President. - Thank you. 216 00:12:04,453 --> 00:12:07,074 - Thank you, sir. - Thank you. 217 00:12:22,888 --> 00:12:24,466 - Lyle. - What's the reaction... 218 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:27,014 ...to the announcement of new Israeli settlements? 219 00:12:27,186 --> 00:12:29,857 Our position remains that we discourage such activities. 220 00:12:31,526 --> 00:12:33,817 Are you contemplating more forceful disapproval? 221 00:12:33,989 --> 00:12:37,656 We urge all parties in the region to take every step to reduce tensions. 222 00:12:37,828 --> 00:12:40,071 - Steve. - Do you have a response to Taylor Reid? 223 00:12:40,248 --> 00:12:43,167 That's hard to say, never having heard of... Is it him or her? 224 00:12:43,337 --> 00:12:47,039 On his new cable show last night, you were named Chicken of the Week. 225 00:12:47,260 --> 00:12:48,589 - Sorry? - His designation... 226 00:12:48,762 --> 00:12:51,599 ...for the person who he says refuses to appear on his show. 227 00:12:51,767 --> 00:12:54,259 It's hard to refuse something you've never heard of. 228 00:12:54,438 --> 00:12:56,597 - You'd be willing to go on? - I have no idea... 229 00:12:56,817 --> 00:13:00,104 ...though what girl can resist being referred to as poultry? Gail. 230 00:13:00,405 --> 00:13:02,648 What about going to the U.N.? 231 00:13:02,825 --> 00:13:04,203 It will be discussed. 232 00:13:04,370 --> 00:13:06,031 Isn't that what it's there for? 233 00:13:06,206 --> 00:13:07,582 Yeah. 234 00:13:07,751 --> 00:13:11,454 But this isn't the room where you talk about that. 235 00:13:16,181 --> 00:13:18,554 Follow-up confirms it was a nuclear blast? 236 00:13:18,727 --> 00:13:22,430 Yes, sir. We're still gathering data on precise yield and type. 237 00:13:22,608 --> 00:13:24,151 Options, general? 238 00:13:24,318 --> 00:13:26,526 North Korea's nuclear facilities and weapons... 239 00:13:26,698 --> 00:13:30,151 ...are stored in tunnels a half mile underground, unreachable by air. 240 00:13:30,370 --> 00:13:33,159 They've threatened retaliation in the event of attack... 241 00:13:33,376 --> 00:13:37,162 ...presumably against the South, but conceivably against Australia or Japan. 242 00:13:37,798 --> 00:13:41,170 Or us. They've tested a missile that could possibly reach the U.S. 243 00:13:43,141 --> 00:13:46,641 - And Iran? - There are nuclear targets for air strikes. 244 00:13:46,855 --> 00:13:51,186 The downside is a potential retaliatory nuclear strike at Israel. 245 00:13:55,994 --> 00:13:57,655 Mr. Lyman? 246 00:13:58,248 --> 00:14:01,453 Alex Moreau, assistant administrator, NASA. I was at the breakfast. 247 00:14:01,670 --> 00:14:04,292 You were hardly there long enough to take any of us in. 248 00:14:04,466 --> 00:14:07,588 You're wrong about us getting on the front page when we screw up. 249 00:14:07,763 --> 00:14:09,672 Hubble images make page one all the time. 250 00:14:09,850 --> 00:14:13,185 - You're sending up a new telescope. - The Webb, yes. Past the moon. 251 00:14:13,355 --> 00:14:17,485 Every news story noted it'll be too far out for the shuttle to fix... 252 00:14:17,654 --> 00:14:20,442 ...if it's all screwed up like the Hubble was. 253 00:14:20,658 --> 00:14:23,198 I prepare even for meetings that I don't wanna go to. 254 00:14:23,371 --> 00:14:26,410 I wasn't improvising. You guys are lost in space. 255 00:14:26,626 --> 00:14:27,955 Well, I agree with you. 256 00:14:28,129 --> 00:14:32,343 But NASA's problem isn't getting off the front page, it's getting back on. 257 00:14:32,510 --> 00:14:36,047 The Times never published a larger headline than Armstrong on the Moon. 258 00:14:36,225 --> 00:14:37,850 Only, you don't do that anymore. 259 00:14:38,020 --> 00:14:40,939 It's launches to the pointless International Space Station... 260 00:14:41,108 --> 00:14:44,064 ...which should be rechristened the SS Good Money After Bad. 261 00:14:44,238 --> 00:14:47,775 It's all low Earth orbits. It's like if 30 years after Columbus... 262 00:14:47,952 --> 00:14:51,205 ...Spain expected people to get hot over a trip to Mallorca. 263 00:14:51,707 --> 00:14:53,703 - Why we need to do this. - What's this? 264 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,540 Mars or bust. We want the government to commit to a manned mission to Mars. 265 00:14:57,718 --> 00:15:01,504 There aren't 20 votes for it in Congress. You couldn't get funding for buttons. 266 00:15:01,682 --> 00:15:04,804 The Republican Congress isn't the problem. It's liberals. 267 00:15:04,979 --> 00:15:07,388 Yeah, because we like to use government money... 268 00:15:07,567 --> 00:15:09,227 ...to, I don't know, help people. 269 00:15:09,403 --> 00:15:11,692 Space travel's inspirational. That doesn't help? 270 00:15:11,865 --> 00:15:15,912 - Not like feeding them or getting jobs. - You have to feed the soul too. 271 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:17,789 Ever look through a telescope? 272 00:15:17,958 --> 00:15:23,169 In school, a guy on my floor liked to aim one at the women's dorm. 273 00:15:24,885 --> 00:15:26,963 What are you doing tonight? 274 00:15:27,139 --> 00:15:31,186 Until you get a good look at what's up there, you only think you're prepared. 275 00:15:32,064 --> 00:15:33,690 Pick you up at 8. 276 00:15:44,541 --> 00:15:47,034 Donna, cancel my dinner with Breakstone tonight. 277 00:15:47,213 --> 00:15:48,922 Stargazing? 278 00:15:49,091 --> 00:15:50,550 You were listening? 279 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,926 I'm right outside. 280 00:15:54,140 --> 00:15:56,930 Would you be going if she weren't attractive? 281 00:15:57,188 --> 00:15:58,932 We'll never know. 282 00:16:06,619 --> 00:16:08,244 - Did you...? - I spoke to Leo. 283 00:16:08,413 --> 00:16:12,034 - I got the vice president a policy focus. - Great. 284 00:16:12,211 --> 00:16:13,670 Good government. 285 00:16:13,839 --> 00:16:16,462 Not that chestnut. 286 00:16:16,635 --> 00:16:19,756 "Reducing bureaucracy. Rewriting regulations into plain English." 287 00:16:19,932 --> 00:16:21,842 - Extremely important. - Incredibly boring. 288 00:16:22,019 --> 00:16:24,226 As is the vice president. Match made in heaven. 289 00:16:24,439 --> 00:16:28,024 I don't think theologians would stipulate Toby Ziegler's office as heaven. 290 00:16:28,237 --> 00:16:30,030 You asked and ye hath received. 291 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,863 And yet my joy is less than full. 292 00:16:33,035 --> 00:16:35,743 - "Revoking the franking privilege." - I have work to do. 293 00:16:38,962 --> 00:16:40,755 Close the door. 294 00:16:46,265 --> 00:16:48,259 - Lovely room. - The Swiss like nice things. 295 00:16:49,938 --> 00:16:53,890 You can afford them when you don't have to pay for a national defense. 296 00:16:55,155 --> 00:16:57,778 - Mr. Ambassador. - Mr. McGarry. 297 00:16:58,076 --> 00:17:00,319 - Do you require anything else? - No, thank you. 298 00:17:00,496 --> 00:17:02,870 National Security Advisor McNally. 299 00:17:03,042 --> 00:17:05,748 Assistant Secretary of State Slattery. 300 00:17:06,965 --> 00:17:09,089 I hope the trip down wasn't too inconvenient. 301 00:17:09,302 --> 00:17:11,675 - The summons was a bit abrupt. - Please. 302 00:17:16,772 --> 00:17:20,144 We'd like to discuss your nuclear program. 303 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:24,486 We have agreed to IAEA inspections, suspended production... 304 00:17:24,702 --> 00:17:26,992 ...on enriched uranium. - Temporarily. 305 00:17:27,206 --> 00:17:29,365 Your 40-megawatt heavy-water reactor at Arak. 306 00:17:29,543 --> 00:17:33,958 It's a size too small for electricity generation and larger than for research. 307 00:17:34,134 --> 00:17:37,669 The type that provides fuel for nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan. 308 00:17:37,889 --> 00:17:39,385 And Israel. I understand. 309 00:17:39,601 --> 00:17:42,306 The Iranian exile organization, NCR... 310 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,649 ...has identified other secret enrichment facilities. 311 00:17:45,819 --> 00:17:49,687 The Lashkar-Abad site near Hashtgerd, a site near Ramandeh village. 312 00:17:49,908 --> 00:17:52,995 - Why are you enriching uranium? - For reactor fuel. 313 00:17:53,163 --> 00:17:54,956 For power generation. 314 00:17:55,125 --> 00:17:58,413 As our European friends acknowledge, it's our sovereign right. 315 00:17:58,630 --> 00:18:01,549 Power you don't need, with your oil and gas reserves. 316 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:05,713 It is necessary because of rising domestic consumption rates... 317 00:18:05,892 --> 00:18:09,179 ...and our desire to preserve oil to generate foreign currency. 318 00:18:09,356 --> 00:18:11,979 You displayed the Shehab-3 missile. The only purpose... 319 00:18:12,152 --> 00:18:15,440 ...for such a long-range weapon is to carry a nuclear payload. 320 00:18:15,658 --> 00:18:17,367 And we enjoy stable relations... 321 00:18:17,536 --> 00:18:20,787 ...with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan. 322 00:18:20,999 --> 00:18:22,910 These are the nations within range. 323 00:18:23,086 --> 00:18:25,377 And Israel. I understand. 324 00:18:27,678 --> 00:18:31,973 Sir, we believe your country has been engaged in developing nuclear weapons. 325 00:18:32,183 --> 00:18:35,685 The ayatollah has decreed their production to be haraam... 326 00:18:35,856 --> 00:18:37,649 ...prohibited on religious grounds. 327 00:18:37,860 --> 00:18:41,112 We consider the development and use of such weapons to be immoral... 328 00:18:41,282 --> 00:18:44,486 ...inhumane and against our basic Islamic beliefs. 329 00:18:44,704 --> 00:18:46,164 In contrast to the U. S... 330 00:18:46,331 --> 00:18:49,833 ...which is not merely the only nation to ever employ such weapons... 331 00:18:50,839 --> 00:18:55,171 ...twice, but also brought the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust... 332 00:18:55,388 --> 00:18:56,967 ...with the Cuban missile crisis. 333 00:18:57,141 --> 00:19:01,603 The United States will not tolerate these weapons' further proliferation. 334 00:19:02,065 --> 00:19:07,358 It is disconcerting to be dictated to by the only transgressor in human history. 335 00:19:07,573 --> 00:19:10,612 Let me make myself plain, Mr. Ambassador. 336 00:19:10,787 --> 00:19:13,956 Evidence that Iran possesses or has tested a nuclear weapon... 337 00:19:14,126 --> 00:19:18,505 ...will be greeted by the United States as a matter of gravest consequence. 338 00:19:19,259 --> 00:19:21,051 Are we finished? 339 00:19:27,188 --> 00:19:29,431 I know what terrifies you. 340 00:19:30,652 --> 00:19:34,402 - An Islamic bomb. - And I know what concerns Iran. 341 00:19:34,575 --> 00:19:36,236 A Jewish bomb. 342 00:19:36,453 --> 00:19:40,323 Einstein, Oppenheimer, Teller. 343 00:19:40,501 --> 00:19:42,709 They're all Jewish bombs. 344 00:19:56,527 --> 00:19:57,987 You all right? You look tired. 345 00:19:59,656 --> 00:20:01,947 - I've been tired five years. - Tired-er. 346 00:20:02,118 --> 00:20:04,077 One of those days. 347 00:20:04,248 --> 00:20:07,583 - So I had this meeting with NASA... - What a waste since the Moon. 348 00:20:07,753 --> 00:20:10,625 My generation never got the future it was promised. 349 00:20:10,799 --> 00:20:12,378 - What? - Thirty-five years later... 350 00:20:12,553 --> 00:20:16,137 ...cars, air travel's exactly the same. We don't have the Concorde anymore. 351 00:20:16,308 --> 00:20:18,468 Technology stopped. 352 00:20:18,895 --> 00:20:20,224 The personal computer? 353 00:20:20,397 --> 00:20:23,354 A more efficient delivery system for gossip and pornography? 354 00:20:23,528 --> 00:20:26,649 Where's my jet pack? My colonies on the Moon? 355 00:20:26,826 --> 00:20:28,949 Just a waste. 356 00:20:30,706 --> 00:20:33,033 Chris Aldrich of the Sun wants 10 minutes... 357 00:20:33,210 --> 00:20:35,750 ...and Danny Concanon left a message. 358 00:20:36,215 --> 00:20:39,253 - And it is? - I'm not sure I can do it justice. 359 00:20:39,428 --> 00:20:42,099 - Carol. - Okay, it's: 360 00:20:49,152 --> 00:20:52,190 Chicken noises. This Taylor Reid show thing. 361 00:20:52,366 --> 00:20:53,695 Chicken of the Week. 362 00:20:53,868 --> 00:20:56,361 Get me a copy of the show. 363 00:20:57,122 --> 00:21:00,292 - Latest intel? - Combing through spy satellite data... 364 00:21:00,461 --> 00:21:03,714 ...analyzing for any suspicious presence in the blast zone. 365 00:21:03,884 --> 00:21:08,014 U-2s are over Iran and North Korea, monitoring for unusual activity. 366 00:21:08,183 --> 00:21:09,559 Any conclusions? 367 00:21:09,727 --> 00:21:11,805 No smoking gun. 368 00:21:11,981 --> 00:21:13,440 Recommendations. 369 00:21:13,607 --> 00:21:15,103 - lf it's North Korea? - It's not. 370 00:21:15,319 --> 00:21:18,985 - Chinese don't think so, the CIA... - We can't say definitively. 371 00:21:19,159 --> 00:21:22,280 But, no, it doesn't appear likely it was the Koreans. 372 00:21:22,455 --> 00:21:23,784 Iran, then. 373 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,622 - General? - Surgical air strikes on enrichment sites. 374 00:21:26,795 --> 00:21:28,790 - Which ones? - All five. 375 00:21:29,008 --> 00:21:31,465 - In for a penny. - And if they retaliate? 376 00:21:31,679 --> 00:21:33,138 They'll regret it. 377 00:21:35,601 --> 00:21:38,687 - Get the B-2s in the air, general. - Yes, sir. 378 00:21:38,857 --> 00:21:43,022 We go the minute, and I mean the minute, we're certain. Thank you, all. 379 00:21:43,196 --> 00:21:45,439 - Thank you, sir. - Thank you, Mr. President. 380 00:21:46,660 --> 00:21:49,498 - Good government. - Curtailing Congressional junkets... 381 00:21:49,665 --> 00:21:51,992 ...shuttering archaic agricultural field offices. 382 00:21:52,169 --> 00:21:55,006 - You don't think I should do it. - It buries you in minutiae. 383 00:21:55,215 --> 00:21:57,708 The public's for it, but they'd rather chug sewage... 384 00:21:57,886 --> 00:21:59,216 ...than hear it discussed. 385 00:21:59,431 --> 00:22:03,182 It's easy to characterize junkets as vacations at taxpayers' expense... 386 00:22:03,354 --> 00:22:04,683 ...but they serve a purpose. 387 00:22:04,856 --> 00:22:07,146 Contacts get made, frank exchanges take place... 388 00:22:07,318 --> 00:22:09,229 ...that would never happen in Washington. 389 00:22:09,405 --> 00:22:10,734 Reason enough to beg off. 390 00:22:10,907 --> 00:22:13,696 You don't fully agree with the administration's stance. 391 00:22:15,290 --> 00:22:16,868 Sir? 392 00:22:17,251 --> 00:22:18,580 Will you excuse me? 393 00:22:19,922 --> 00:22:21,666 Yeah, of course, sir. 394 00:22:25,055 --> 00:22:27,179 When you work for a man like the president... 395 00:22:27,351 --> 00:22:32,063 ... who 's got what you could characterize as a casual relationship with the truth... 396 00:22:32,233 --> 00:22:35,651 ... when your job is to go out and to be his spokesperson... 397 00:22:35,823 --> 00:22:38,196 ... the question that naturally arises is: 398 00:22:38,368 --> 00:22:42,534 How can you justify lying for your boss the way C.J. Cregg has to? 399 00:22:42,708 --> 00:22:46,375 And if Ms. Cregg isn 't a liar, then the only obvious conclusion to draw... 400 00:22:46,547 --> 00:22:48,376 ... is that she's gullible, an idiot... 401 00:22:48,551 --> 00:22:52,217 ... or so completely out of the loop she shouldn 't be drawing a salary. 402 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,177 I wanna see where he calls you a chicken. But can wait. 403 00:22:56,355 --> 00:22:58,348 - I want a piece of that twerp. - Can't win. 404 00:22:58,524 --> 00:23:00,732 I'd mop the floor with him, smirk first. 405 00:23:00,945 --> 00:23:03,105 You'd just keep it alive. Old newspaper adage: 406 00:23:03,282 --> 00:23:06,653 Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. 407 00:23:11,379 --> 00:23:14,167 - I gotta go. - Something going on? 408 00:23:14,466 --> 00:23:17,174 I'll see you in the morning. 409 00:23:27,863 --> 00:23:29,323 Excuse me, sir. 410 00:23:29,491 --> 00:23:33,656 I know, I gotta get dressed for the HHS thing. 411 00:23:34,332 --> 00:23:35,957 Mr. President, you should cancel. 412 00:23:36,544 --> 00:23:38,454 It's been a long day, sir. 413 00:23:38,630 --> 00:23:39,959 I'll be fine. 414 00:23:40,383 --> 00:23:41,795 You should get some rest. 415 00:23:42,428 --> 00:23:44,587 I'm not sure I could sleep. 416 00:23:46,685 --> 00:23:48,726 I'm gonna get dressed. 417 00:23:50,399 --> 00:23:52,559 Yes, Mr. President. 418 00:23:59,413 --> 00:24:01,704 - Yeah. - Shut the door. 419 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,429 B-2s have taken off. Their targets are five uranium enrichment sites in Iran. 420 00:24:13,602 --> 00:24:14,932 We've confirmed it was them? 421 00:24:15,439 --> 00:24:19,486 - It's not a go till we're sure. - Is this the room? 422 00:24:19,654 --> 00:24:21,315 - What? - Where we talk about the U.N. 423 00:24:21,491 --> 00:24:24,825 - So far I'm the only one bringing it up. - The U.N. doesn't want this. 424 00:24:24,995 --> 00:24:27,702 They wanna wring their hands and censure us after... 425 00:24:27,876 --> 00:24:30,582 ...but they expect us to take care of things like this. 426 00:24:31,298 --> 00:24:36,093 And after they've exhausted themselves calling us warmongers and imperialists... 427 00:24:36,264 --> 00:24:39,267 ...they'll go home and quietly drink toasts to their relief. 428 00:24:39,477 --> 00:24:41,306 Unilateral air strikes. 429 00:24:41,523 --> 00:24:43,646 Have a statement ready. 430 00:24:50,787 --> 00:24:52,531 I have a political question. 431 00:24:52,707 --> 00:24:55,544 The theory of democracy is people have direct connection... 432 00:24:55,712 --> 00:24:57,752 ...to officials at the most local level. 433 00:24:57,922 --> 00:25:01,923 Everyone can name the president, but no one knows who their assemblyman is. 434 00:25:02,097 --> 00:25:03,556 Complacency. 435 00:25:03,724 --> 00:25:05,053 Who knows. 436 00:25:05,226 --> 00:25:08,478 It's like asking why the sky is blue. 437 00:25:09,108 --> 00:25:11,351 The colors that make up light have different wavelengths. 438 00:25:11,528 --> 00:25:14,199 The shortest wavelength, blue, is the most easily dispersed. 439 00:25:14,366 --> 00:25:18,947 So when sunlight hits the Earth's atmosphere, blue's what gets scattered most. 440 00:25:19,959 --> 00:25:21,952 Why the sky is blue. 441 00:25:31,310 --> 00:25:32,804 Yeah. 442 00:25:34,815 --> 00:25:37,106 Can this wait till tomorrow? 443 00:25:40,909 --> 00:25:42,700 Put him on. 444 00:25:45,791 --> 00:25:48,331 Yes, Mr. Vice President. 445 00:25:50,507 --> 00:25:52,133 This is good. 446 00:26:08,578 --> 00:26:10,867 - Here. Could you...? - You want me to carry that? 447 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,416 Yes, please. 448 00:26:12,584 --> 00:26:14,411 Okay. 449 00:26:14,587 --> 00:26:19,168 When you said... I thought we were going to some big observatory. 450 00:26:19,344 --> 00:26:21,053 No, you're not ready for that. 451 00:26:21,223 --> 00:26:22,552 You need the experience... 452 00:26:22,725 --> 00:26:26,559 ...9- year-olds are having all across the country tonight. 453 00:26:26,898 --> 00:26:29,985 Are they ruining their shoes too? 454 00:26:46,054 --> 00:26:48,297 Amazing once you get away from the city lights. 455 00:26:48,474 --> 00:26:52,771 There's one named after me up there. The Josh and Linda star. 456 00:26:52,940 --> 00:26:56,642 The International Star Registry. Romantic. 457 00:26:56,820 --> 00:26:58,150 Yeah. 458 00:26:58,323 --> 00:27:00,447 Name something that's there for years... 459 00:27:00,618 --> 00:27:04,619 ...after two people who won't be speaking in six months. 460 00:27:05,376 --> 00:27:07,666 Alex and Guillermo. 461 00:27:08,046 --> 00:27:11,168 - Guillermo? - Yeah, Chilean. Long story. 462 00:27:11,344 --> 00:27:13,634 Sexy. Player. Dumped you. 463 00:27:13,807 --> 00:27:16,014 Okay, not such a long story. 464 00:27:16,185 --> 00:27:17,728 Go ahead. 465 00:27:22,403 --> 00:27:23,779 Jupiter. 466 00:27:23,948 --> 00:27:26,618 The dots on either side are the four Galilean moons. 467 00:27:26,785 --> 00:27:29,159 You're seeing what Galileo saw 400 years ago. 468 00:27:29,539 --> 00:27:32,875 Yeah, I remember studying Jupiter. It has 13 moons. 469 00:27:33,045 --> 00:27:34,754 Yeah, it has 61. 470 00:27:34,924 --> 00:27:36,751 Sixty-one? 471 00:27:38,179 --> 00:27:39,840 Okay. 472 00:27:43,562 --> 00:27:46,185 - Wow, what is that? - The Orion Nebula. 473 00:27:46,358 --> 00:27:49,314 Gas and dust. Stars are born in that. 474 00:27:49,489 --> 00:27:52,028 Well, born and die, actually. 475 00:27:52,201 --> 00:27:55,987 Everything, every atom in our bodies comes from exploding stars. 476 00:27:56,165 --> 00:27:59,037 I guess Joni Mitchell was right. We are stardust. 477 00:27:59,504 --> 00:28:01,913 Or put another way, nuclear waste. 478 00:28:07,893 --> 00:28:10,100 - Is that...? - Mars. 479 00:28:10,272 --> 00:28:12,099 Because it's near its closest point... 480 00:28:12,274 --> 00:28:16,322 ...you are getting the best look anyone's had at it in 60,000 years. 481 00:28:26,130 --> 00:28:27,625 Ten-hut. 482 00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:30,007 - Everyone. - Good evening, sir. 483 00:28:30,220 --> 00:28:34,885 One thing about this job, it's hard to unobtrusively slip out of a party. 484 00:28:39,943 --> 00:28:43,860 Mr. Vice President, would you tell everyone what you told me. 485 00:28:44,659 --> 00:28:47,448 I was on a Congressional junket to the Mideast last year. 486 00:28:47,622 --> 00:28:50,031 Wound up on a boat cruising the Mediterranean. 487 00:28:50,377 --> 00:28:55,006 The combination of jet lag, booze and choppy seas made some guests sick. 488 00:28:55,218 --> 00:28:58,588 As they leaned over the rail, one of our high-level government hosts... 489 00:28:58,765 --> 00:29:01,092 ...came up to me and drunkenly mused he hoped... 490 00:29:01,270 --> 00:29:04,972 ...they weren't puking on one of their nuclear subs. 491 00:29:05,151 --> 00:29:09,020 He winked and lurched off, and the official's country... 492 00:29:09,741 --> 00:29:11,070 ...was Israel. 493 00:29:11,493 --> 00:29:13,701 He was talking about nuclear-powered subs. 494 00:29:13,873 --> 00:29:16,412 - Israeli subs are diesel-powered. - Guy was drunk. 495 00:29:16,793 --> 00:29:19,916 Israel's nuclear capability has been an open secret for years. 496 00:29:20,133 --> 00:29:21,926 Why would they perform a test now? 497 00:29:22,136 --> 00:29:24,462 Getting warheads on submarine-based missiles... 498 00:29:24,639 --> 00:29:28,935 ...requires miniaturization technology that could need to be tested. 499 00:29:29,104 --> 00:29:30,897 - Could. - I know, that's not a word... 500 00:29:31,067 --> 00:29:33,939 ...you're fond of at Langley. Let the man talk. 501 00:29:34,113 --> 00:29:36,606 Israel's developing advanced fusion-boosted weapons. 502 00:29:36,784 --> 00:29:41,116 This technology is extremely difficult and requires testing to produce warheads... 503 00:29:41,291 --> 00:29:43,618 ...capable of being shrunk to the size needed... 504 00:29:43,796 --> 00:29:46,288 ...to be placed on submarine-based cruise missiles. 505 00:29:52,434 --> 00:29:55,105 - Where are the bombers? - Three hours out of Missouri. 506 00:29:55,271 --> 00:29:57,646 They'll be over their targets in Iran in 14 hours. 507 00:29:59,696 --> 00:30:02,817 Tell the Israeli ambassador to get his prime minister on a plane. 508 00:30:03,034 --> 00:30:05,491 - I want him in the Oval Office by noon. - Yes, sir. 509 00:30:05,706 --> 00:30:08,494 - General? Put a hold on the bombers. - Yes, sir. 510 00:30:08,668 --> 00:30:10,079 Leo, Mr. Vice President. 511 00:30:10,546 --> 00:30:13,465 - Thank you all. - Thank you, Mr. President. 512 00:30:15,053 --> 00:30:17,261 We'll need a cover story for the visit. 513 00:30:17,431 --> 00:30:21,563 Brief Toby. Have him get with C.J. right away. 514 00:30:22,356 --> 00:30:23,685 Thank you, Bob. 515 00:30:23,859 --> 00:30:28,109 I'm sure Leo's wondering how it is I know so much about all this. 516 00:30:28,283 --> 00:30:30,028 All those jokes about me being... 517 00:30:30,202 --> 00:30:33,823 ...the congressman from Western Colorado Mining. 518 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,956 Colorado Plateau is this country's leading source of uranium. 519 00:30:38,006 --> 00:30:39,882 Good night, Mr. President. 520 00:30:40,260 --> 00:30:42,136 Leo. 521 00:31:08,555 --> 00:31:11,344 Okay, it's not gonna happen, but... 522 00:31:12,227 --> 00:31:14,802 Tell me about going to Mars. 523 00:31:15,357 --> 00:31:17,185 Right here? 524 00:31:21,826 --> 00:31:23,404 The plan is called Mars Direct. 525 00:31:23,579 --> 00:31:24,991 What'll it cost? 526 00:31:25,165 --> 00:31:27,740 Thirty, 40 billion. 527 00:31:27,919 --> 00:31:30,162 Over 10 years. 528 00:31:30,465 --> 00:31:33,836 - It's the cost of one weapons system. - Go on. 529 00:31:34,345 --> 00:31:37,265 We launch a crew directly there, like we went to the Moon... 530 00:31:37,434 --> 00:31:43,228 ...and use the resources found on Mars to make the fuel to get back. 531 00:31:43,403 --> 00:31:46,155 - Is that doable? - It's 19th-century chemistry. 532 00:31:46,323 --> 00:31:48,068 It's all doable now. 533 00:31:48,243 --> 00:31:52,195 All we lack is the ambition and political will. 534 00:32:01,181 --> 00:32:03,174 The Israeli prime minister's flying in... 535 00:32:03,351 --> 00:32:05,640 ...to discuss their new settlement activity. 536 00:32:05,813 --> 00:32:08,519 The thing you had me shrug off yesterday as a nonstory? 537 00:32:08,693 --> 00:32:10,901 - That was yesterday. - I'm trying to decide... 538 00:32:11,072 --> 00:32:14,858 ...if I'm gullible, an idiot or just being completely kept out of the loop. 539 00:32:15,494 --> 00:32:17,205 Yeah. 540 00:32:19,918 --> 00:32:23,040 - Mr. Vice President. - I've been thinking about this thing. 541 00:32:23,216 --> 00:32:26,384 Speak to the president about your reasons for not going along. 542 00:32:26,554 --> 00:32:29,427 No. I'm gonna do their bidding on this. 543 00:32:29,601 --> 00:32:31,642 Due respect, it's not a serious policy. 544 00:32:31,813 --> 00:32:34,483 You have to get the West Wing to treat you with respect. 545 00:32:34,651 --> 00:32:37,903 I'm a team player. I do what's asked. 546 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,785 And, Will, for the record, I'm not worried about having the president's respect. 547 00:32:45,627 --> 00:32:47,834 Thanks for your concern yesterday. 548 00:32:48,005 --> 00:32:51,043 - Did you get some sleep, sir? - Not much. 549 00:32:59,398 --> 00:33:02,567 Some terrible choices have had to be made in this room... 550 00:33:02,737 --> 00:33:05,823 ...none more agonizing than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 551 00:33:05,992 --> 00:33:09,993 - I can't imagine. - When you sit here, you have to. 552 00:33:12,669 --> 00:33:16,040 Would you have made the same decision Truman made? 553 00:33:19,556 --> 00:33:21,846 On Okinawa, the Japanese knew they couldn't win... 554 00:33:22,018 --> 00:33:24,308 ...so they killed as many Americans as possible. 555 00:33:24,771 --> 00:33:26,766 There were 110,000 Japanese troops... 556 00:33:26,942 --> 00:33:30,728 ...and a quarter of a million people died there, including Japanese civilians. 557 00:33:30,906 --> 00:33:32,235 To defend Japan itself... 558 00:33:32,409 --> 00:33:34,699 ...they'd mobilized 2 and a half million... 559 00:33:34,872 --> 00:33:37,993 ...with a civilian militia of 30 million more... 560 00:33:38,168 --> 00:33:40,660 ...pressed into service just to die for the emperor. 561 00:33:42,384 --> 00:33:45,006 So you could claim the bombings actually saved lives. 562 00:33:45,179 --> 00:33:47,755 That's one argument. Another is that after Potsdam... 563 00:33:47,934 --> 00:33:52,265 ...Truman wanted Stalin to know we had the bomb and we were willing to use it. 564 00:33:52,692 --> 00:33:54,317 But would you have done it, sir? 565 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,962 Donna! 566 00:34:08,133 --> 00:34:09,628 Yes? 567 00:34:10,887 --> 00:34:13,509 - How long have you been there? - Long enough. 568 00:34:16,813 --> 00:34:19,021 I need a breakdown of NASA funding... 569 00:34:19,192 --> 00:34:21,519 ...as a percentage of discretionary spending... 570 00:34:21,696 --> 00:34:25,566 ...in five-year increments, starting in 1969. 571 00:34:25,786 --> 00:34:27,116 Wanna hear something cool? 572 00:34:27,289 --> 00:34:30,909 Voyager 1 just crossed the termination shock, 8 billion miles away. 573 00:34:31,086 --> 00:34:33,709 First humanmade object to leave the solar system. 574 00:34:33,882 --> 00:34:36,719 Funny, I'm going through a little termination shock myself. 575 00:34:37,012 --> 00:34:39,172 - What? - Suddenly this interest in space... 576 00:34:39,850 --> 00:34:42,473 ...because some NASA administrator batted eyes at you? 577 00:34:42,646 --> 00:34:45,435 - You hate that I'm interested. - What was your first hint? 578 00:34:45,651 --> 00:34:47,062 That's perfect. Sit down. 579 00:34:48,030 --> 00:34:50,949 Sit. I need to play out an argument. 580 00:34:55,375 --> 00:34:57,867 - Everyone hates us. - Inspiring start. 581 00:34:58,045 --> 00:35:00,086 We're the most dominant nation on Earth... 582 00:35:00,299 --> 00:35:03,467 ...but too often, the face of our economic superiority... 583 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,009 ... is corporate imperialism. 584 00:35:05,182 --> 00:35:10,476 Our technological dominance shown by smart bombs and Predator drones. 585 00:35:10,649 --> 00:35:11,978 We could do something else. 586 00:35:12,736 --> 00:35:17,068 Something generous and uplifting for all humankind. 587 00:35:17,284 --> 00:35:22,412 We could send the first representatives from Earth to walk on another planet. 588 00:35:22,585 --> 00:35:25,337 We could land people on Mars. 589 00:35:30,598 --> 00:35:32,222 Needs work. 590 00:35:32,392 --> 00:35:33,768 Needs something. 591 00:35:33,936 --> 00:35:36,607 Yeah, that inspiration thing. 592 00:35:38,903 --> 00:35:42,689 Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extraterrestrials... 593 00:35:42,909 --> 00:35:47,574 ... is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages... 594 00:35:47,750 --> 00:35:53,376 ... and a collection of music, from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry. 595 00:35:53,551 --> 00:35:59,508 Including "Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)"... 596 00:35:59,686 --> 00:36:02,178 ...by '20s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson... 597 00:36:02,774 --> 00:36:06,275 ...whose stepmother blinded him at 7 by throwing lye in his eyes... 598 00:36:06,445 --> 00:36:09,568 ...after his father beat her for being with another man. 599 00:36:09,784 --> 00:36:13,287 He died, penniless, of pneumonia... 600 00:36:13,457 --> 00:36:15,784 ...after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers... 601 00:36:15,961 --> 00:36:18,205 ...in the ruins of his house that burned down. 602 00:36:19,050 --> 00:36:22,420 But his music just left the solar system. 603 00:36:25,602 --> 00:36:28,438 Okay. That got me. 604 00:36:34,032 --> 00:36:36,489 Thank you for coming, Mr. Prime Minister. 605 00:36:36,661 --> 00:36:40,577 You've had a long flight, and I've had a long last day and a half. 606 00:36:40,750 --> 00:36:45,297 Let's not waste any time with veiled questions and coy answers. 607 00:36:45,591 --> 00:36:48,962 Your government conducted an atmospheric nuclear test... 608 00:36:49,180 --> 00:36:51,852 ...over the Indian Ocean 36 hours ago. 609 00:36:52,019 --> 00:36:56,980 This action poses enormous problems for the region, for the world. 610 00:36:58,195 --> 00:37:00,153 - And for the U.S. - Yes. 611 00:37:00,323 --> 00:37:02,899 It undercuts our counter-proliferation policy... 612 00:37:03,078 --> 00:37:07,623 ...and makes us look, at best, biased and, at worst, like outright hypocrites. 613 00:37:07,794 --> 00:37:10,962 You do not look hypocritical espousing nonproliferation... 614 00:37:11,132 --> 00:37:16,510 ...while funding research on a new generation of tactical nuclear bombs? 615 00:37:16,808 --> 00:37:18,552 This is not my view. 616 00:37:18,728 --> 00:37:22,598 The U.S. is merely looking after its national interest... 617 00:37:22,818 --> 00:37:24,478 ...as Israel has a right to do. 618 00:37:24,654 --> 00:37:26,564 Proliferation breeds proliferation. 619 00:37:26,740 --> 00:37:30,610 China's bomb produced India's, India's begat Pakistan's. 620 00:37:30,789 --> 00:37:37,045 The United States' ideal number of nuclear-weapons states is one. 621 00:37:37,966 --> 00:37:42,466 No matter if it's merited or arrogant, it's irrelevant. 622 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,593 Our chief of military intelligence asserts... 623 00:37:46,773 --> 00:37:51,817 ...that if Iran completes its enrichment program... 624 00:37:51,989 --> 00:37:55,740 ...it will be able to produce nuclear weapons within one year. 625 00:37:55,912 --> 00:37:58,535 No one disputes Israel lives under threat. 626 00:37:59,001 --> 00:38:00,459 Threat? 627 00:38:00,628 --> 00:38:05,008 We are 6 million surrounded by 200 million who wish us obliterated. 628 00:38:06,263 --> 00:38:09,716 For Israel, deterrence is not an option but an imperative. 629 00:38:09,893 --> 00:38:13,845 There's a fine line between deterrence and provocation. 630 00:38:14,024 --> 00:38:17,609 We model our approach on America's during the Cold War. 631 00:38:17,780 --> 00:38:19,109 Mutual assured destruction. 632 00:38:19,282 --> 00:38:23,200 There's a reason its acronym was MAD. 633 00:38:24,164 --> 00:38:26,836 It succeeded entirely in keeping the world safe. 634 00:38:27,004 --> 00:38:31,466 Iran will become a nuclear state. 635 00:38:31,636 --> 00:38:35,683 I mean, what difference if it takes one year or five or 10? What difference? 636 00:38:35,850 --> 00:38:39,186 We can stop them. By force, if it comes to that. 637 00:38:39,357 --> 00:38:44,151 But should this fail, all that would stand in the way of an Iranian first strike... 638 00:38:44,364 --> 00:38:47,320 ...is an assured second-strike capability. 639 00:38:47,787 --> 00:38:51,655 Submarines armed with nuclear missiles. 640 00:38:51,835 --> 00:38:55,750 Mr. President, this is essential... 641 00:38:55,924 --> 00:38:58,631 ...for Israel's survival. 642 00:38:59,681 --> 00:39:03,930 Your argument boils down to asking that the world trust you. 643 00:39:04,354 --> 00:39:07,274 As does America's. 644 00:39:11,992 --> 00:39:16,287 It's telling that the physicists involved with the creation of these weapons... 645 00:39:16,457 --> 00:39:19,793 ...became the most fervid opponents of their use. 646 00:39:20,129 --> 00:39:23,916 Einstein, Oppenheimer, Szilard. 647 00:39:24,094 --> 00:39:28,095 Hans Bethe wrote, "If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs... 648 00:39:28,268 --> 00:39:32,932 ...what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for... 649 00:39:33,108 --> 00:39:35,731 ...but the methods used to accomplish them. 650 00:39:35,905 --> 00:39:40,119 These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan... 651 00:39:40,411 --> 00:39:44,245 ...who brutally killed every last inhabitant of Persia." 652 00:39:51,595 --> 00:39:53,222 Hey. 653 00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:55,384 It's over. 654 00:39:57,982 --> 00:39:59,441 It was the Israelis. 655 00:40:01,278 --> 00:40:03,900 The bombers have turned back. 656 00:40:05,451 --> 00:40:08,905 That's a hell of a dress rehearsal. 657 00:40:11,085 --> 00:40:13,079 This is our plan. 658 00:40:13,505 --> 00:40:16,462 This is our nuanced, reasoned... 659 00:40:16,636 --> 00:40:19,889 We bomb, then they nuke, then we nuke. 660 00:40:20,351 --> 00:40:23,139 This is the best we've gamed this out? 661 00:40:23,313 --> 00:40:25,805 The fate of the world hung on a Bingo Bob brainstorm. 662 00:40:25,985 --> 00:40:28,025 You wanna live by those odds? 663 00:40:28,196 --> 00:40:32,861 As opposed to sanctions, inspections and never-ending talks... 664 00:40:33,037 --> 00:40:37,951 ...while a Hezbollah martyr leads a donkey cart packed with plutonium... 665 00:40:38,129 --> 00:40:40,586 ...smack into downtown Tel Aviv. 666 00:40:43,429 --> 00:40:45,388 It's not over. 667 00:40:47,143 --> 00:40:51,523 And we need a better plan.