James Bills, Mark McLaughlin, Eulunda McLaughlin
Mark McLaughlin
Deep beneath the American heartland, Whiskey Zero 1 is a contained high-stakes thriller about a near-miss nuclear crisis that unfolds not because something goes wrong, but because everything works exactly as designed. When a catastrophic event triggers automated warnings and cuts off communication with command, two missile officers are forced to navigate an irreversible launch system built for certainty—at a moment when certainty no longer exists. As AI News travels, protocols activate, information fragments, and judgment is removed from the loop, the film explores the terrifying possibility that obedience, not error, may be the greatest threat of all.