James Bond helps French agent Dominique Paradis foil a stolen nuclear weapon plot in Paris on New Year's Eve, stopping the truck before it can destroy the Eiffel Tower. Sent undercover to industrialist Raphael Drake's Austrian castle, Bond steals a missile guidance chip from an exchange between Drake's Phoenix International and Alexander Mayhew. When Mayhew is killed by a ninja at his Japanese estate, the trail leads Bond through Tokyo's Phoenix Building, a decommissioned nuclear plant, and Drake's private island. Double-crossed by Kiko and captured, Bond escapes with the help of Australian agent Alura McCall. The final confrontation takes place on a U.S. Space Defense Platform, where Bond destroys eight missiles, kills Drake, and escapes as the station explodes — the debris reported worldwide as unexpected meteor showers.