Pakistani Capital City (unnamed, e.g., Islamabad)
Detailed Involvements
Events with rich location context
The Pakistani capital is the at‑risk target referenced by Tom's briefing: described as vulnerable if conventional defenses fail, its potential loss frames the briefing's urgency and justifies both Pakistani alarm and U.S. contemplation of deterrent moves.
Threatened and precarious in the briefing's depiction — the city's safety is the immediate strategic concern.
Strategic target whose vulnerability raises stakes and compresses decision timelines.
Symbolizes national survival and the human cost that underwrites strategic calculations.
Not applicable in the scene — discussed as an offstage, sovereign capital.
The Pakistani capital is the endangered strategic objective referenced by Tom when warning about conventional defense shortfalls; its mention personalizes the stakes and explains why Pakistan's delegation of nuclear authority is consequential.
Imagined as tense and vulnerable—civilian centers under threat if conventional defenses collapse.
Strategic target and focal point for defensive urgency in the military assessment.
Represents national vulnerability and the threshold that could trigger disproportionate escalatory responses.
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In the Situation Room the Joint Chiefs brief President Bartlet and Leo on a dangerous escalation along the India–Pakistan cease‑fire line. Photo‑recon shows India moving new units to the border …
President Bartlet enters the Situation Room and, faced with a briefing on troubling Indian troop movements and Pakistan's nuclear posturing, deliberately deflects with an offhand question about the Celtics. Admiral …