The President and Leo have a very early morning when satellite detects an atmospheric nuclear detonation. No one claims responsibility for the test, and the experts disagree over whether the likely culprit is Iran or North Korea. Bingo Bob Russell gets it right when he provides the missing information -- the bomb was Israel's. Meanwhile, Josh blows off NASA administrators en masse, but agrees to go star-gazing with a particularly attractive member of the group. CJ gets increasingly irked by an obnoxious cable news personality who has named her chicken of the week.

Starring:

STOCKARD CHANNING as First Lady Abigail Bartlet
DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
JOSHUA MALINA as Will Bailey
JANEL MOLONEY as Donna Moss
RICHARD SCHIFF as Toby Ziegler
JOHN SPENCER as Leo McGarry
BRADLEY WHITFORD as Josh Lyman
and MARTIN SHEEN as President Josiah Bartlet

Leo:  You were a little rough with the Director.

Bartlet:  I'll send him a lollipop.

Leo:  You want your intelligence head focused and at his best.

Bartlet:  Guy couldn't find a clear route in at four in the morning.  I'm not overbrimming with confidence.

Alex:  It's liberals who killed the space program.

Josh:  Yeah, 'cause we like to use government money to, I don't know, help people.

Alex:  Space travel's inspirational.  You think that doesn't help people?

Josh:  Not like feeding them or getting them jobs.

Toby:  Extremely important.

Will:  And incredibly boring.

Toby:  As is the Vice President.  A match made in heaven.

Will:  I don't think many theologens would stipulate Toby Ziegler's office as heaven.

Leo:  What a waste since the moon.  My generation never got the future it was promised.

Josh:  What do you mean?

Leo:  Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel's exactly the same.  We don't even have the Concorde anymore.

Josh:  The personal computer?

Leo:  A more efficient delivery system for gossip and pornography?  Where's my jet pack?  My colony on the moon?  Just a waste.