adorshki
Reverential Member
YES, you do. Great art is timeless, as relevant today as it was then:
An Air Force general goes rogue and launches a pre-emptive B-52 strike against the soviet Union, then shuts down all communication with his base and tells his men to be ready for an attack against the base.
Meanwhile, President Muffley is advised of the "problem" and decides to let the Soviets know about the "mistake" while trying to recall the bombers.
The rogue general's base is assaulted in attempt to recover the recall code the general has substituted for the real one:
All the planes are successfully recalled except for one, whose radio was damaged by an air-to-ground missile near-miss.
While the last plane resolutely carries out its mission, Dr. Strangelove advises the President that a nuclear war could be survivable in underground bunkers built specially for the purpose:
Strangelove is a mash-up of Henry Kissinger and Wernher Von Braun.
From "the usual source"'s page on Henry Kissinger:
"During 1955 and 1956, he was also study director in nuclear weapons and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He released his book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy the following year.[36] The book, which criticized the Eisenhower Administration's "massive retaliation" nuclear doctrine, caused much controversy at the time by proposing the use of tactical nuclear weapons on a regular basis to win wars.[37]"
He went on to become Nixon's Secretary of State.
Von Braun was a German scientist who spear-headed the Nazi V2 intercontinental ballistic missile program and was captured by the US in the final days of WWII, and went on to become the father of the US space program.
If those mine shafts are still around, maybe we could open 'em up for Covid shelters.
[Edited for sp. check 9:03pm 2/16]
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