Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964).
"...we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation," General Buck (George C. Scott) Turgidson tells President Merkin (Peter Sellers) Muffley..."
General Buck Turgidson continues, "...choose between two admittedly regretable but neverthless distinguishable post-war environments, one where you have 20 million killed, and another where you have 150 million killed..."
"...I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed..."
David Hoffman's "Dead Hand."
What we learn now, forty-five years after George C. Scott and Peter Sellers performed the most sensational strategic debate in the history of the Cold War, is that the paranoid Chekhist stooge and ghoul Andropov put into place Operation RYAN in 1983 that was to gather evidence worldwide of the potential for an American first strike launched by Ronald Reagan. Bizarre details such as increased production at meat slaughterhouses to prepare for underground bunkers. Part of the story behind Operation RYAN was the development of a fully non-human and a semi-non-human Doomsday Machine that were strikingly similar to the Doomsday Machine in Dr. Strangelove. And just like the movie, the Soviets did not tell the US that they had built a semi-non-human Doomsday Machine, called Perimeter, and had put it into operation in 1985.
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