India–Pakistan military escalation and the administration's race to contain a potential nuclear escalation (intelligence shock → diplomatic multilateral crisis → Marbury gambit → temporary cease‑fire).
India–Pakistan military escalation and the administration's race to contain a potential nuclear escalation (intelligence shock → diplomatic multilateral crisis → Marbury gambit → temporary cease‑fire).
Events in This Arc
A routine late-night watch morphs into an immediate military alarm: a radar officer flags a fresh CAGE satellite pass and summons Jack, who confirms the twenty-minute-old contact, zooms the grid …
A rapid, high-stakes Situation Room briefing brutally reframes a regional skirmish as a potential nuclear crisis. Admiral Fitzwallace lays out confirmed Indian thrusts across the cease‑fire line; Bobby reads Prime …
In the Oval Office Bartlet balances the intimate and the apocalyptic: he gives Charlie guarded permission to date his daughter, then convenes senior staff as Lord John Marbury arrives with …