(at around 1h 5 mins) When the National Security Advisor suggests a nuclear attack on the aliens while aboard Air Force One, David uses "nuclear winter" as a reason not to do this. In fact, "nuclear winter" was discredited as a viable theory during the First Gulf War (when Kuwait was liberated) as Carl Sagan tried to stop President George Bush from taking action against Iraq on the claim that if Saddam Hussein set the oil fields afire the nuclear winter equations showed there would be a "year without summer." Hussein did set the oil fields afire, but summer came anyway. The flaw is that the nuclear winter theory was based on a model with an infinite number of variables and was scientifically invalid. However, as David is extremely ecologically conscious -- to the point that some people might consider him an "eco-nut" (constantly annoyed that the people around him don't follow his strict views on recycling, smoking, and Styrofoam cups, for example) -- it is reasonable to assume that he would not know or be less inclined to believe that the Nuclear Winter theory was discredited.
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