
Fail-Safe
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- 1964
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Warren?
You'll wake yourself up.
I'll get you breakfast.
No time.
They always have coffee there.
You're flying down?
I'll check out one of the trainers.
Then I can get back when I want.
What are you doing today?
Shopping.
Have to get clothes
for the boys.
They grow so fast.
Need any money?
I cashed a check.
I had the dream again.
Always ends at the same place.
I guess that's just as well.
Sometime I'm going to see
that matador, find out who he is.
When I do, that's the end of me.
Don't talk like that.
It's only a dream.
Maybe I ought to resign.
What good would that do?
I'm sure it would make the dream
go away. They're connected.
Katie,
the dream and what I'm doing...
Sometimes I feel the only way
I can make it disappear is to resign.
But you can't resign.
You can't give up your whole life.
You're my life too.
You and the boys.
Maybe I have to choose.
Or maybe it's too late.
Warren, don't go.
Skip the meeting.
Tell them my wife insists
I go shopping?
I'll skip the shopping.
We haven't done that in months.
with wine.
This meeting is special.
The secretary will be there.
They're even holding it in the war room
to show how up-to-date we are.
You could do with a day off.
In the middle of the week?
That's immoral.
We can go out for dinner.
I'll be back by then.
If I can get a sitter.
You got me.
You can get anything.
You wouldn't do very well.
There's no chance of that,
is there?
None at all.
First you said 100 million dead.
Now you say 60 million.
I say 60 million is perhaps
the highest price...
we should be prepared
to pay in a war.
What's the difference between
60 million dead and a hundred million?
- Forty million.
- Some difference.
Are you saying saving 40 million lives
is of no importance?
You miss the point, Professor.
is what's important.
Face facts, Mr. Foster.
Every war, including thermonuclear war,
must have a winner and a loser.
In a nuclear war, everyone loses.
War isn't what it used to be.
It's still the resolution
of economic and political conflict.
What kind of resolution
with 100 million dead?
- It doesn't have to be 100 million.
- Even 60!
The same
as a thousand years ago, sir...
when you also had wars
The point is still who wins and who
loses, the survival of a culture.
A culture?
With most of its people dead...
the rest dying,
the food poisoned...
the air unfit to breathe.
- You call that a culture?
- Yes, I do.
I am not a poet.
I'm a political scientist...
who would rather have an American
culture survive than a Russian one.
But what would it really be like?
Who would survive?
It's an interesting question.
I would predict...
convicts and file clerks.
The worst convicts, those deep down
in solitary confinement...
and the most ordinary
file clerks...
probably for large
insurance companies...
because they would be
in fireproofed rooms...
protected by tons of the best insulator
in the world:
Paper.Then imagine what will happen.
The small group of vicious criminals
will fight the army of file clerks...
for the remaining means of life.
The convicts
will know violence...
but the file clerks
will know organization.
Who do you think will win?
It's all hypothesis, of course,
but fun to play around with.
Time to go home. I didn't mean
to hold forth so long.
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