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"...please stand by."

 

Ah yes, our founding fathers...

Is it possible that Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers did more to avert the end of the world than all of the politicians and test ban treaties combined?

The genius of "Dr. Strangelove" is how it captures both the grim reality and the wild absurdity of Mutual Assured Destruction. It gave the "unthinkable" a human face. If we dared to laugh at the end of the world, then maybe we could stop it,
or maybe it wouldn't happen at all.

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Dr. Strangelove makes his entrance- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTstgN8ReTo

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