Talk:Countdown to Looking Glass

Viking motif
The article ends by saying that "One of the CTV rebroadcasts of the film in the mid-1980s occurred only days before an actual confrontation in the Persian Gulf occurred between American and Soviet ships". What incident does this refer to? A shufty on Google suggests this occasion, but that was in 1991. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:57, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe that may have been the incident in question. My memory is of it happening in the late 80s, though, because I recall the Cold War was still a going concern, whereas by the time of the 1991 incident it had calmed down considerably. 68.146.81.123 (talk) 22:53, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find anything from the 1980s, either. Could have a confused recollection of the attacks on the ships of noncombatant countries during the Iran-Iraq war, I guess, but that's hardly what it says.  The rebroadcast date isn't documented or cited to anything, either, and would likely be even more difficult to check.  Should the sentence be removed as unverifiable?  Heather (talk) 23:46, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Missing theme
I think the current plot synopsis could stand a slight overhaul. One of the themes (or underlying plot lines) of the story is also the US Government's ability to respond to such fast-paced crises in the era of 24-hour news. There are details dropped about how side-swiped the White House was by the near-simultaneous occurrence of the Omanian coup and the bank crisis, the SecDef collapsing of a heart attack shortly after a brief news conference, and how Dory's boyfriend described the "signal-to-noise-ratio" of the available intelligence to the WH as "horrendous," explaining why those satellite photos may have been overlooked in the mad dash to get control of the situation.

The current plot synopsis does tend to leave those details behind... Eddievhfan1984 (talk) 21:05, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Nuclear torpedo claim
Is this based on review of declassified doctrinal information or estimates of deployment numbers? It seems much more reasonable to me that a nuclear cruise missile would have been used, given the development of those weapon systems to evade NATO air defense systems. Every Tupolev bomber of the era deployed nuclear anti-ship cruise missiles (Tu-16,20,22M,95/160).50.147.26.108 (talk) 19:05, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Nuclear torpedo claim
Is this based on review of declassified doctrinal information or estimates of deployment numbers? It seems much more reasonable to me that a nuclear cruise missile would have been used, given the development of those weapon systems to evade NATO air defense systems. Every Tupolev bomber of the era deployed nuclear anti-ship cruise missiles (Tu-16,20,22M,95/160).50.147.26.108 (talk) 19:05, 29 March 2014 (UTC)