Buck Turgidson is a overwhelmingly patriotic General of the US armed forces and a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who despises the Soviet Union and Communism. In the War Room at the Pentagon during the Cold War, General Buck Turgidson briefs President Merkin Muffley and other officers about how "Plan R" enables a senior officer to launch a retaliatory nuclear attack on the Soviets if all superiors have been killed in a first strike on the United States. It would take two days to try...| Kubrick Wiki