Delroy Lindo credited as playing...
Colonel Max Wilkins
- Kelly: Colonel Wilkins, this is Airman Kelly, sir!
- Colonel Max Wilkins: Go.
- Kelly: [faking moans into the radio] Chief Rhodes is dead! They're all dead!
- Colonel Max Wilkins: What the hell happened? What the hell HAPPENED?
- Kelly: [Deakins rubs his shaver into the microphone] It's the nuke! It's open! It's wide open!
- Colonel Max Wilkins: Kelly, come in! What happened?
- Kelly: [Deakins rubs his shaver into the microphone again] Oh God...
- [fake coughs]
- Kelly: What am I gonna do?
- [Deakins pulls the plug on Kelly's headphones]
- [after the nuke is detonated in the mine]
- Giles Prentice: Colonel Wilkins, sir? Uh, shouldn't we be evacuating?
- Colonel Max Wilkins: [covers his phone] We're fine, it was underground.
- [into phone]
- Colonel Max Wilkins: Colonel Wilkins to General Creeley...
- Giles Prentice: Are you sure? I mean, how do you know that?
- Colonel Max Wilkins: [covers the phone again] Because if it had been a surface detonation, we'd have felt a different kind of ground tremor. We'd also be burned, blind, and dying.