“If I don't drop the bomb, so many more of our young men will die in the invasion of Japan. Their men, too, and women and children. How can I face the people when it's finally over, and say that I had the power to possibly end the war, long ago, spare the lives of their loved ones, and I chose not to use it?”
Gary Sinise - Harry S. Truman

“- Elizabeth Stephens: Paul, did you build an atomic bomb?
- Paul Stephens: Only a little one.”
Jill Eikenberry - Elizabeth Stephens
Christopher Collet - Paul Stephens

“I never thought I'd say this to anybody, but I got to go get the atomic bomb out of the car.”

Christopher Collet - Paul Stephens

“Anybody want to make a bet?”

John Lithgow - John Mathewson

“- Giles Prentice: A Broken what?
- Secretary of Defense Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.
- Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.”
Frank Whaley - Giles Prentice
Kurtwood Smith - Secretary of Defense Baird