Countdown to Looking Glass

Countdown to Looking Glass is a Canadian madefortelevision movie that premiered in the United States on HBO onOctober 1984 and was also broadcast on CTV in Canada. The movie presents a fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons, which was triggered by a banking crisis, from the perspective of an ongoing news broadcast.

The CVN news networks nightly program, starring Don Tobin Watson, with reports from correspondents Michael Boyle Glenn and Dorian Waldorf Shaver, discusses a terrorist bombing of the American embassy in Saudi Arabia that killed the American ambassador. The week before, a global banking crisis, caused by several South American countries defaulting on their loans, led to turmoil in Southwest Asia. Before the unrest spread to Saudi Arabia, Sovietbacked militants led a coup in Oman when the Omani economy collapsed. Shortly after, a new report shows the banking crisis may soon begin to ease.The following day, it is revealed that a large military operation was launched to keep the peace in Saudi Arabia, with many American soldiers, ships, and planes being sent at King Fahds request. This move is heavily criticized both abroad and domestic. The United Kingdom, Americas closest ally, refuses to take part in the operation as do many other of Americas allies. However the attitude of the American representatives is clear that they can perform the peacekeeping mission alone, citing the success of the British in the past in withholding the Russians previous provocation in the area. ........

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