PART III
The most unlikely and absurd plot element in âStrangeloveâ is the existence of a Soviet âDoomsday Machine.â The device would trigger itself, automatically, if the Soviet Union were attacked with nuclear weapons. It was meant to be the ultimate deterrent, a threat to destroy...
PART II
The Kennedy Administration soon decided to put locking devices inside NATOâs nuclear weapons. The coded electromechanical switches, known as âpermissive action linksâ (PALs), would be placed on the arming lines. The weapons would be inoperable without the proper codeâand...
Almost everything in âdr. Strangeloveâ was true
POSTED BY ERIC SCHLOSSER
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrickâs black comedy about nuclear weapons, âDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.â Released on January 29, 1964, the film...