Two trains collided and exploded in a remote Russian garrison region. A bizarre nuclear explosion followed, causing heavy casualties in Russia. Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman Nicole Kidman) of the White House's anti-nuclear smuggling intelligence unit suspects that the nuclear accident was not accidental. In order to trace the history of the explosion and find out the truth behind it, Julia and second Lieutenant Thomas Weill (George Clooney George Clooney) of the Army Special Forces were ordered to launch an investigation. In the painstaking investigation, they unexpectedly discovered a great conspiracy. A nuclear terrorist posing as a politician has brought a nuclear warhead into the United States to blow up the United Nations headquarters in New York. Female director Mimi Ryder's debut film, Alert, is based on articles by veteran investigative journalists Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn, based on declassified intelligence and real news events gathered by the Cockburn couple.
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