From Wikipedia plot summary of The Sum of All Fears: “The participants in the conspiracy, including Dressler, are assassinated”
Fingers crossed.
The conspiracy in the film was to start a war between Russia and the US by using a rogue actor to nuke Baltimore and blame it on Russia.
Watching it on TV as it happened that morning, I sensed it was total BS. Something about the way the buildings “fell” looked off and defied explanation. And it seemed too choreographed to be real.
It reminded me of watching children play, or that scene in Tommy Boy where they’re in the potential buyer’s office and Chris Farley lights the guys model car on fire (“oh no, there’s a cliff!”).
To me, the tower falling, and especially the second tower falling, was the “oh no, there’s a cliff!” part of the operation.