Politics and Popular Culture Movie Review "Crimson Tide" In "Crimson Tide," the primary political issue being presented to the general audience is whether a United States nuclear submarine should strike a Russian target during a very tense, Cold-War like time.         The Russians are basically facing a civil war in their country and a nuclear missile silo is captured by rebel forces. The rebels are threatening to arm and fire a nuclear missile at the United …showed first 75 words of 649 total…

…showed last 75 words of 649 total…and his followers are locked away only to be freed by a young man that he took interest in earlier. The two seniors are eventually faced against each other at the "con" (the control room for the sub). Washington is only given a few minutes to restore radio communications and receive orders from their superiors not to strike the Russian target. The Alert Message comes and the crew is able to avoid a nuclear strike.