Countdown to Looking Glass (1984 TV Movie)

Patrick Watson: Don Tobin

Quotes 

• Don Tobin : Twenty years ago, I used to spend a lot of time talking about... hypothetical nuclear war scenarios with a man who was one of the pioneers in that form of prophecy... he's dead now... really believed in his craft. He said to me once, "Don, I'm convinced that sooner or later there will be a nuclear exchange - but I'm also convinced that when the leaders confront the terror of that exchange, they'll realize they can't get away any longer with playing war games, and they'll turn around... if there's anything to the power of prayer."

• Don Tobin : I'm remembering that even in the midst of gastric spasm at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, there was something inside me that kept insisting that once the players came to the edge of the abysm and looked into it, that they would pull back. And even today, as black as it seems, I still hear that insistent voice that says that reasonable people, once they looked the devil in the face aren't going to shake hands with them.