Plot Synopsis

Based on the book by John J. Nance. A researcher hires a pilot to fly to Washington, D.C.,where a hurricane is about to hit. Also on board is a recently divorced woman whose mad scientist ex-husband was working on a top-secret thermonuclear device. Upon his request to deliver the project to the Pentagon, she takes the device on the plane, thinking it is only a non-working model. She and the other passengers soon realize the cargo is a live warhead designed to explode when they reach the Capital.