General Turgidson (George C. Scott)’s Timeline and Summary
- While hanging out with his mistress, the General gets the news about Plan R.
- The General lays out the details of the crisis to the President.
- He advises the President to nuke the crap out of the U.S.S.R. before they can retaliate.
- Turgidson gets in lots of tiffs with the Soviet Ambassador.
- In the end, he's excited by the prospect of monogamy being abandoned in America's new mineshaft future, but still paranoid that the Russians will build their own mineshafts and out-breed everyone else.