From the drawing board to the launch silo, to ground zero: three Cold War tales of nuclear terror...

CRITICAL MAN

Arzamas-16: A star Soviet nuclear weapons designer is fatally irradiated in a test of a new design. When he awakens from his initial symptoms, Evgeni Shatalov is startled to discover that the KGB believes it was no accident and wants him to help find his own killer. He only has days to avenge his own death before his cells dissolve...

LAUNCH ON WARNING

North Dakota: In the middle of NATO Exercise "Able Archer," a Minuteman ICBM crew report for a routine shift beneath the prairies. Together, Captain Fred Howe and Lieutenant Arne Olerud have the lives of twenty million people in their hands; a fact which comes into stark focus when they receive the message they never thought would come: Launch on Warning...

THE HOSPITAL

New Westminster, Canada: Graham Long is on his way to his job as a hospital security guard when Armageddon begins. Together with a small band of professionals and volunteers, he must maintain The Hospital as the last beacon of hope for tens of thousands of suffering victims...