The Sum of All Fears

The Sum of All Fears is a 2002 action/thriller film based on the novel of the same title by Tom Clancy. As part of the Jack Ryan series, the book was first published in 1991 and then adapted to the screen by Paul Attanasio in 2002.

A nuclear bomb recovered from a 1973 Israeli A-4 Jet crash falls into the wrong hands and is sold on the black market to the Australian neo-Nazi Richard Dressler (Alan Bates). Dressler has the bomb assembled in Russia, and then installs the bomb in a football stadium in Baltimore, Maryland in an attempt to start a war between Russia and America. Russia's new president, Alexander Nemerov (Ciaran Hinds), is a questionable military figure, and part of Dressler's plan includes American paranoia over the situation. CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) and director William Cabot (Morgan Freeman) acquire a tape of Dressler explaining his intentions. They then attempt to warn the President of the threat and stop the impending nuclear war between America and Russia.