The Peacemaker (1997)

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The Peacemaker is a 1997 American action/thriller film directed by Mimi Leder and starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman.

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Plot: The movie begins in an Eastern Orthodox church in Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina, when an unidentified man (later revealed to be a Bosnian diplomat to the UN) is murdered in the church's narthex after receiving a page to meet someone outside. The scene then immediately shifts to a missile base in Chelyabinsk, Russia, where SS-18 ICBMs are being decommissioned. Ten nuclear warheads are loaded onto a train and sent to a separate site for dismantling. However, a high-ranking Russian general has other plans. Along with a rogue tactical unit, he kills all the soldiers on-board the transport train and then transfers nine of the warheads to another train running on parallel tracks. He then activates the timer on the remaining warhead and shunts the transport away from his train and onto a collision course with a passenger train. The passenger train's engineer is unable to avoid the attack. Minutes later, the 500-kiloton warhead detonates, killing the survivors and delaying and confusing any investigation.
The detonation immediately attracts the attention of the US government. Even though the detonation was staged to look like an accident, White House nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly (Kidman) is not convinced: SS-18 warheads can only be detonated deliberately. She believes that Chechnian terrorists are behind the incident. Smooth-talking and irreverent US Army Special Forces officer Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Devoe (Clooney), earlier seen facing a Congressional hearing, disrupts her briefing to advocate his own theory that the crash and the detonation were both staged to hide the hijacking of the other warheads on board. A call to Devoe's long-time friend and Russian counterpart, Dimitri Vertikoff (Armin Mueller-Stahl), adds credence to his hypothesis and he is assigned as Dr. Kelly's military liaison. Kelly and Devoe try to track down the terrorists through an Austrian trucking company which is a front for the Russian Mafia.

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