Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
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Re: Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
#2This is also true for Enemy of the State. Watch it again. Your jaw will hit the floor: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/
Re: Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
#3This is also true for Enemy of the State. Watch it again. Your jaw will hit the floor: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/
> This is also true for Enemy of the State.
Uh, no? None of what happened in the movie is based on a real story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)#Real...
Re: Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
#4If this article piqued your interest definitely have a look at "The Dead Hand" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Dead-Hand-Untold-Dangerous/dp/0307...).
Re: Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
#5That all those official denials and assurances at the time were BS and lies, serves as a good reminder for how to treat similar assurances in the present.
Re: Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
#6This is also true for Enemy of the State. Watch it again. Your jaw will hit the floor: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/
> This is also true for Enemy of the State. Uh, no? None of what happened in the movie is based on a real story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)#Real...
Who said anything about "based on a real story"? Did you read TFA?
Dr. Strangelove's plot is not based on a real story either.
It's about getting the details right, not about being based on any particular real life story or persons.
Re: Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
#7If this article piqued your interest definitely have a look at "The Dead Hand" ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Dead-Hand-Untold-Dangerous/dp/0307... ).
"The Dead Hand" combined with "Command and Control" (http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illu...) makes for very sobering reading. Put the two together, and it's a genuine miracle that nothing bad happened. Of course, we're not out of the woods...
Both are excellent books, BTW, so I agree with the parent poster's recommendation.
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#8Young folks today just don't believe how downright surreal (and scary) the cold war was to live through.
Look, just read this wikipedia entry about the British Blue Peacock nuclear device, and boggle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock
Yes. It's a chicken-heated atomic landmine. Not a joke: it was a Real Thing.
And so was this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device...
The M-29 Davy Crockett tactical nuclear recoilless rifle. (Jeep-mounted, no PALs, the rocket's flight range was less than its lethal radius of effect: the crew were supposed to fire it over a hill then dive under their jeep for cover.)
People not only imagined these things, they built them and deployed them in the stone-cold expectation of using them in anger.
Re: Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
#9This is also true for Enemy of the State. Watch it again. Your jaw will hit the floor: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/
You are right. I just watched it the other night and I was blown away by the accuracy at which the movie portrayed surveillance and even wondered if that movie was giving out more information than what the government wants out nowadays compared to back then. We were more skeptical that these things existed back then, but now that we know they do it makes that movie dead on.
Re: Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
#10Young folks today just don't believe how downright surreal (and scary) the cold war was to live through. Look, just read this wikipedia entry about the British Blue Peacock nuclear device, and boggle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock Yes. It's a chicken-heated atomic landmine. Not a joke: it was a Real Thing. And so was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device... The M-29 Davy Crock…
That reminds me of the pigeon-guided missile.