Thirteen Days
prev.
play.
mark.
next.

1:05:00
Mr. President
1:05:01
The OAS meeting starts
in less than an hour

1:05:04
Good. I think we need this one. Dean
1:05:06
We can't expect miracles
1:05:08
The quarantine is legal
if we get a mandate

1:05:12
Otherwise it's an act of war
in the eyes of the world

1:05:14
So you gotta get me the vote
1:05:15
And make it unanimous
1:05:17
Mr. President
the Organization of American States

1:05:18
hasn't had a unanimous vote since...
1:05:20
Unanimous, Dean
1:05:49
In accordance
with this afternoon's vote

1:05:51
at the Organization of American States
1:05:53
the quarantine
will hereby be effective

1:05:56
as of ten o'clock tomorrow morning
1:06:15
At eight a. m. this morning
1:06:16
the United States
1:06:18
detonated a hydrogen bomb above
Johnston Island in the South Pacific

1:06:21
The blast was quickly condemned
by the Soviet Union

1:06:25
who called upon all nations
to denounce the United States

1:06:28
for bringing the world
to the brink of destruction

1:06:30
Who the hell authorized the test?
1:06:32
What is this gonna say
to the Russians?

1:06:33
They look warlike?
1:06:35
Jesus Christ
we're lighting off nuclear weapons

1:06:37
like it's our own
private Fourth of July

1:06:39
You know what?
1:06:40
We should have brought in the guys
from the Atomic Energy Commission

1:06:44
and talked this through
1:06:45
Looked at these tests a little harder
1:06:48
before just giving the go-ahead
1:06:53
You know, last summer I read a book
"The Guns of August"

1:06:57
I wish every man on that blockade line
had read that book


prev.
next.