North Korea finally steps over the line and launches a live nuclear missile towards one of its perceived foes.
It goes down near Noto Island, Japan, but fortunately doesn't detonate.
While meeting with the war cabinet to plan a response, U.
President Leo H.
Morris suddenly dies of undetermined causes.
Now an unprepared Vice President, Marc Z.
Gr goire, must guide the nation and the world through a crisis and try to avert World War Three.
But he is stranded in a blizzard in Quebec, Can.