In a nondescript boxing ring, two fighters square off. Suddenly, fists in boxing gloves rush at each other -- and us -- with explosive force. The intensity of the combatant's blows belies the fact that they are friends engaging in a spirited round of fisticuffs. Vic Deakins, the older and more experienced of the two is definitely in control, giving his young friend Riley Hale an impressive, if painful, boxing lesson.In addition to having a mentor/protege relationship in the ring, Deakins and Hale are colleagues -- crack military pilots who are about to be handed a choice assignment to fly the top-secret B-3 Stealth bomber on a test run. Their cargo: two nuclear warheads. Although anything but routine, the mission should go without incident. But a shocking treachery is about to put millions of lives at risk as the timer on an incredible nuclear extortion plot ticks toward ground zero.