It’s the height of the Cold War, and the US and the USSR are jockeying for position worldwide. The world is ablaze with proxy wars. The newly elected American president has a mandate to end the one-sided policy of detente. He uses the mandate to press Congress for advanced strategic arms with upgraded offensive capabilities.
Technological breakthroughs provide the Americans with a futuristic ghost plane capable of delivering a nuclear strike without being detected. Russian leaders fear the president is planning to use it to end the Cold War by force.
Moscow Center dispatches KGB agents across the globe to uncover proof of the preemptive strike by the US, and they find it everywhere they look. The Soviets believe their only option is to launch their nuclear arsenal before the Americans attack.
Besieged West Berlin lies at the center of the conflict, and the clock is ticking. An inexperienced Army counterintelligence officer stumbles upon evidence of the Russian plans, but can he expose the scheme in time to prevent the Soviet Union from unleashing Armageddon?