Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: unidentified aircraft has intruded into American airspace, Fact2: Attempts to rescind order fail because American radio communications, Fact3: Colonel Jack Grady commands group to continue to target, Fact4: President of United States and advisers attempt shoot them down, Fact5: Communications are opened with Soviet Chairman
Output (English): During a VIP visit to the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command SAC, at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, the Air Forces early warning radar indicates that an unidentified aircraft has intruded into American airspace. Shortly after, the intruder is identified as an offcourse civilian airliner and the alert is cancelled, but a computer error causes one American bomber group to receive orders for an attack on Moscow. Attempts to rescind this order fail because a new Soviet countermeasure jams American radio communications. With his orders apparently confirmed, Colonel Jack Grady Edward Binns, the US bomber groups commander, commands the group to continue to their target. The President of the United States Henry Fonda and his advisers attempt to recall the group or shoot them down. Communications are opened with the Soviet Chairman in which mistakes on both sides the orders to the American bombers, and the Soviet jamming are acknowledged. The jamming ceases, but the crew follows their training in dismissing the counterorders they receive as a Soviet ruse. The President struggles to find a resolution that will stop the Soviet Union from counterattacking; if he fails, an allout nuclear holocaust will be unavoidable. He offers to sacrifice an American target to appease the Soviets, and he orders an American bomber towards New York City. The Presidents advisers in the Pentagon discover that in doing so, the President is sacrificing the First Lady, who is visiting New York City. A single American bomber reaches Moscow and destroys it. The President orders General Black Dan OHerlihy, whose wife and children live in New York, to make a corresponding nuclear attack on New York, using the Empire State Building as ground zero. After releasing the bombs, Black kills himself. The last moments of the film show images of people in New York going about their daily lives, unaware of the coming disaster.