Duck and Cover (The West Wing)

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“Duck and Cover”
The West Wing episode
Episode no. Season 7
Episode 144
Written by Eli Attie
Directed by Christopher Misiano
Guest stars Teri Polo
Ron Silver
Stephen Root
J.K. Simmons
Michael Chieffo
Matthew Del Negro
Renée Estevez
Production no. 2T6212
Original airdate January 22, 2006
Season 7 episodes
  1. The Ticket
  2. The Mommy Problem
  3. Message of the Week
  4. Mr. Frost
  5. Here Today
  6. The Al Smith Dinner
  7. The Debate
  8. Undecideds
  9. The Wedding
  10. Running Mates
  11. Internal Displacement
  12. Duck and Cover
  13. The Cold
  14. Two Weeks Out
  15. Welcome to Wherever You Are
  16. Election Day Part I
  17. Election Day Part II
  18. Requiem
  19. Transition
  20. The Last Hurrah
  21. Institutional Memory
  22. Tomorrow
List of The West Wing episodes

"Duck and Cover" is episode 144 of The West Wing.

Elections are underway in Kazakhstan, but Russia and China both on the brink of going to war in Central Asia over oil are the least of Bartlet and C.J.'s concerns as they face a nuclear reactor in California on the verge of a meltdown. While agonizing over the decisions over whether to evacuate nearby citizens and to release radioactive steam into the atmosphere, the Santos and Vinick campaigns stare each other down, trying to avoid being the first to turn the crisis into a political issue -- all the more complex as decades ago, Vinick lobbied for the plant's construction. When the news comes out, the election becomes, in Josh's words, "too close to call."

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