Review – By Dawn's Early Light

If a real nuclear war was this big a cluster fuck, that’s just one more reason why it’s a good thing we never got around to having one. In this drama the whole mess gets sparked by a mysterious missile attack on a Soviet city, and things go downhill from there. Before the end of the movie, NORAD has been wiped out, the country is being run by the Secretary of the Interior, and just about every officer in the entire military has disobeyed orders in one way or another (ranging from simple incompetence to high treason). Overall this is a made-for-HBO reheat of Fail Safe that came along just in time for the Cold War to end and render the whole thing moot. See if desperate