In 1995, a disgraced former LA Times reporter, JC Wyatt, who now works for a supermarket tabloid, investigates a story about a Professor, who has created a formula that prevents nuclear reactions from taking place. Believing this might be something big, and lacking credibility, he tries to enlist his former girlfriend, and current Pulitzer prize winning LA times journalist, Tracey Holmes to investigate with him. Chased by a hardnosed FBI agent who wants them to drop the investigation, as well as Russian and Israeli spies, JC and Tracey start to believe there may be something to this formula. The only way to prove that the formula works is to use it on an upcoming protest filled Nuclear Bomb test in the Nevada desert.Connecting with Dr. Judith Stanton, a former Nuclear scientist, and current Nuclear test protestor, JC and Tracey pursue proof that the formula works. Provided the formula in aerosol form by the Professor, the three of them use the cover of the thousands of people protesting the Nuclear test, to infiltrate the Air Force base, and make their way to the Nuclear test site. Climbing down an air shaft to the bomb test, they are confronted by the FBI agent who told them to give it up, and now locks them into the bomb test area, where their lives depend on the formula working.