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Another I strained to remember is called
Deterrence (1999), starring Kevin Pollack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_(film) About a president campaigning across the country ahead of a fictional then-future 2008 election. While stopped at a rural diner, a global crisis emerges when Iraq is announced in the news to have invaded Kuwait, a situation where the president threatens Iraq to withdraw or face a U.S. nuclear attack. It is then revealed that Iraq has obtained 25 nuclear weapons, and threatens to use them on the U.S. and its allies if attacked.
So caught on the campaign trail outside the White House, the president is forced to use the rural diner he stopped in as a situation room to deal with the sudden crisis that has quickly risen to nuclear brinkmanship. Also interesting that in the diner with the president and his secret service, military staff, and cabinet advisors, are the diner employees and other customers, as they hear televised CNN coverage in the diner, amid the president's phone calls to world leaders to deal with the crisis.
This was a year before George W. Bush was elected, and 4 years before a then-unforseeable crisis in Iraq,
the exact country portrayed in the movie, four years before an actual ulimatum given to Iraq (over not complying with U.N. nuclear weapons inspectors), and before actual 2003 speculation and uncertainty about just what Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons capability was.
And my mention of this movie now coincides about a month after President Trump gave threats to Iran, and when they did not comply and stand down, deployed several B-2 bombers that completely destroyed Iran's underground nuclear weapons facilities.
I haven't seen this movie replayed in a very long time, over 20 years at least, and I'm surprised it has not gotten replay in all that time. But I recall in the years just after it was made, it was played on television multiple times. It wasn't a huge budget movie or a particular box office success, but I still thought it was a good film that raised provocative issues.
