The Case of Colonel Darwin

Overview

Air Force colonel, former astronaut Greg Darwin, is visited by his old friend, Johnny. After talking, Greg reveals to Johnny a secret from his past. While serving in space intelligence, Darwin, along with another astronaut, Dick, was sent on a secret mission to a planet that had experienced a devastating nuclear war. On the instructions of the command, Greg and Dick had to find the remaining weapons on a depopulated planet, which had no analogues on Earth yet... Fragments of the stories by R. Sheckley "The Riot of the Rescue Boat" and R. Bradbury "Rust" are staged.