“Robert - don't you ever worry the war will be over before the bomb is ready to drop?”
Brian Dennehy - Gen. Leslie Groves

“- 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