The Package is a 1989 American political action thriller film, directed by Andrew Davis and starring: Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones, John Heard and Dennis Franz.

Set during the Cold War, the film depicts the U.S. and Soviet governments, as they are about to sign a disarmament treaty, to completely eliminate nuclear weapons.

U.S. Army Green Beret Master Sergeant Johnny Gallagher is part of a unit patrolling outside a chalet in West Berlin, where the U.S. President and the Soviet General Secretary are beginning talks for mutual nuclear disarmament.

Gallagher is blamed for the disaster and assigned, as punishment, to escort an Army sergeant, named Walter Henke, back to the United States for court martial.

Meanwhile, the real Walter Henke is approached in West Germany by Colonel Glen Whitacre, who tasks him with a top-secret assignment to infiltrate a Neo-Nazi gang in his hometown of Chicago, who they believe are plotting to assassinate the President.

The Gallaghers investigate the conspiracy on their own, starting with trying to find the real Walter Henke in Chicago, where the next phase of the planned peace talks will take place.

Angrily, Whitacre says that nuclear weapons are the only thing preventing war, and he and his Soviet counterparts are just smart enough to realize that mutual disarmament would be disastrous for both countries.