Dr Strangelove 2. "At NATO we think the right people who have the bomb need to drop it on the wrong people who have the bomb to stop the bomb being dropped..." 24 January, 2008

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Dr Strangelove 2. "At NATO we think the right people who have the bomb need to drop it on the wrong people who have the bomb to stop the bomb being dropped..." 24 January, 2008

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Shows the head and shoulders of Joshua Bolten, White House Chief of Staff. He wears darkened glasses and smokes a cigarette rather as Dr Strangelove did. He talks of the right people dropping bombs on the wrong people to stop the bomb being dropped. The allusion is to the Stanley Kubrick film 'Dr Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb' in which Peter Sellers plays a mentally unstable US Air Force general. The film satirizes the Cold War and the doctrine of mutual assu...

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Date created

2008

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22327666

Locations

Iran / United States

Related subjects

Bolten, Joshua Brewster, 1954- / North Atlantic Treaty Organization / Sellers, Richard Henry, 1925-1980 / Bombs / Dr Strangelove (Motion picture) / Nuclear warfare / United States / Foreign relations / Iran

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