Convinced the Commies want to pollute America's "precious bodily fluids," a crazed general orders a nuclear air strike on the U.S.S.R. As his aid, Captain Mandrake, scrambles to unlock a recall code to prevent the bombing, the U.S. President calls a drunken Soviet Premier on the hotline claiming the proposed attack is all a silly mistake, while the President's advisor Dr. Strangelove verifies the existence of a dreaded Domsday Machine.