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The West Wing, Season 7, Episode 12 (Patreon)

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2025-07-07 23:27:49
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Duck and Cover

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WW7 12

Comments

Ingemar Svensson

They have to do it for drama but like many shows dealing with radiation the hazard is way exaggerated. The levels of exposure mentioned, 5 times the safe limit, is still close to 500-1000 times lower than the dose needed to kill someone within 24 hours. At most those engineers would have had a higher risk of developing cancer later in life at that level. Even at higher levels that do cause acute radiation poisoning it often takes several weeks to die from it and many people survive and recover even after hospitalization.

Yannick, from Montréal

Speaking of unsung heroes, I know you want to put Chernobyl on your watch list. This episode should make you put it on TOP of that list.

trenton gragg

Rarely does a television series get two future Oscar winners, Janney and Simmons, in one scene.

Youtalkingtome
>>179659197

For sure. I'm definitely in the novice category for understanding the range of the danger. Thanks for sharing that!

Laura Room

My husband is a union steamfitter, Local 21. He worked several annual shut downs at Indian Point in Westchester County, NY. It's shut down now, but he had to pass several clearances to work there. Hillary Clinton once visited while she was a US senator for NY.

Shawn Looney

I know Joe and Kevin try to be sensitive to others' political leanings, but I have no such inclinations. When I watch this episode I can't help but think how wholly unprepared President Orange Man is to step in, lead and make critical decisions during an emergency. I watch this episode from the Pacific Northwest where we wait and prepare for "the big one" (an 8 or 9 mag earthquake and tsunami from the offshore Cascadia fault). And I know that if it happens on this moron's watch, we are totally and utterly screwed.

Youtalkingtome
>>179662376

I completely forgot about Janney's Oscar. So that's at least 3 I can think of: Simmons, Janney, and Matlin. Crazy.

Mithroch

I think you missed that Donna's "audible" was because the reporter already had it.

Weird Magic

The final countdown........ten to go! Originally airing on January 22, 2006, 'Duck and Cover' is Episode 12 of Season 7 of The West Wing. It is the 145th episode overall and has an IMDB rating of 8.4, placing it as the #9 ranked episode of this season and #40 out of all the episodes shown so far.

Cristy

By chance I recently watched a 2022 Netflix documentary on the Three Mile Island (Pennsylvania) nuclear accident in 1979. As I was watching it, I thought it felt familiar so I did some googling out of interest. Apparently, this WW storyline is heavily inspired by that incident. The episode features a fictional nuclear power plant incident that mirrors many aspects of the Three Mile Island event, including the timeline and the potential for a core meltdown. Also, this episode originally aired 27 years after the real life incident.

Cristy

I love having Alan Alda back but not under these circumstances. They clearly had to even out the playing field heading into the election. As someone who had to endure a recent federal election where one party was pushing nuclear power this episode just hits different now.

Michael Bennett

This is the episode that really kicks the season into high gear, and it's going to stay there. What an awesome way to do it, where the primary focus gets to be Bartlet's handling of the crisis, and the political fallout is obvious. It's been so cool to see Donna's comeback, she started off being rejected by Josh because she worked for the Russell campaign, then Lou hired her without Josh knowing, then she was working with both Matt and Helen during their trip home, and now she is fully integrated, spending most of this episode by Josh's side as a trusted strategist. Also loved Will in this episode, in total command while briefing the press. As much as I love this episode and the Chernobyl series, I'm still very pro-nuclear. I hope the small modular reactor thing takes off. I don't know how else we're going to power all the acres upon acres of data centers that we're building.

Paul T Hewes

I really enjoyed this episode. It was needed to allow the Santos campaign to catch Vinick in the polls. And it did a good job of showing Josh Malina's acting, when being stern. Also great bit part from JK Simmons. -As far as nuclear power being safe, I agree with the sentiment about human nature. Humans are the biggest risk factor when it comes to nuclear power (or anything to be honest). We are lazy, and greedy, and moody, and driven by emotions. So while, in a vacuum, nuclear power is safe as long as everything is done the right way, we cannot depend on humans to do things the right way ALL THE TIME for DECADES. We get greedy and cut budgets for maintenance, and training, and salaries of workers. People come into work sick or sad or mad or distracted, or call out all the way. We are too big a risk to trust ourselves with atomic energy.

Roland

This episode is a great teaser for the amazing Chernobyl... 🤩