The Sum of All Fears (film)

The Sum of All Fears is a 2002 American spy thriller film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, based on Tom Clancys novel of the same name. The motion picture, which is set in the Jack Ryan film series, is a reboot taking place in 2002. Jack Ryan is portrayed as a younger character by Ben Affleck, in comparison to The Hunt for Red October starring Alec Baldwin, along with the films subsequent sequels, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, both of which starred Harrison Ford.

In 2002, a Syrian scrap collector uncovers a large unexploded bomb buried in a field within the Golan Heights, and sells it to a South African arms dealer named Olson Feore. Olson recognizes it as an Israeli nuclear weapon that was lost when the A4 Skyhawk carrying it was shot down during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He later sells it to a secretive farright cabal seeking to impose a white supremacist world order, led by Austrian billionaire and neoNazi Richard Dressler Bates. Dresslers aim is to transform Europe into a united fascist superstate. He intends to start a nuclear war between the United States and Russia that will devastate them both.CIA analyst Jack Ryan Affleck, is summoned by Director William Cabot Freeman to accompany him to Russia to meet President Nemerov Hinds. In Moscow, Cabot and Ryan are allowed to examine a Russian nuclear weapons facility as prescribed by the START treaty, where Ryan notices the absence of three scientists listed on the facilitys roster. Cabot sends Special Activities Division operative John Clark Schreiber to Russia to investigate the missing scientists. Clark tracks the missing scientists to a former Soviet military facility in Ukraine, where Cabot suspects they are building a secret nuclear weapon that Russia could use without any way to trace it back to them. ........

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