Richard H. Ellis

饰：Self - Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command, USAF,(as General Richard H. Ellis)

William R. Graham

饰：Self - Co-Founder of Research and Development Associates, Marina Del Rey, California

Francis P. Hoeber

饰：Self - Former Program Manager, Defense Studies, The Rand Corporation

Edward N. Luttwak

饰：Self - Senior Fellow, Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies

Warren C. Moore

饰：Self - Vice Commander in Chief, The Aerospace Defense Command,(as Major General Warren C. Moore)

William J. Perry

饰：Self - Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Development

Walter Slocombe

饰：Self - Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning

Robert K. Squire

饰：Self - Director of Strategic and Tactical Studies and Analysis - Lawrence Livermore Lab

William R. van Cleave

饰：Self - Director of the Strategic Studies Program, USC

James Schlesinger

饰：Secretary of Defense 1973-1975

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Martin Sheen

饰：Narrator

Paul H. Nitze

饰：Self - Representative of the Secretary of Defense to SALT 1969-1974