The Fifth Missile
– The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken b..
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that.
23 Feb 1986
English
Larry Peerce
Eric Bercovici, Frank M. Robinson (novel), Thomas N. Scortia (novel)
Robert Conrad, Sam Waterston, Richard Roundtree, Jonathan Banks
The crew of a Trident submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that.