Roman Bernard and John Morgan join Richard to discuss Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964), how nuclear policy is impossible to parody, and the past and future of total destruction.
NOTES:
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Ending of North By Northwest (1959)
“A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff”
Peter George, Red Alert)
Eugene Burdick, Fail-Safe)
Fail-Safe (2000)
Ken Adam
Moonraker (1979)
WarGames (1983)
Ronald Reagan and the "War Room”
The Dead Hand)
Werner von Braun and NASA
The “SAC”
James Earl Jones, “A Bombardier’s Reflection”
Water fluoridation controversy
Revolutionary Road) (2008)
John Morgan, "The Politics of Nuclear War” (Part I, II, III)
Hillary Clinton, “We Came, We Saw, He Dies”
Gadhafi and the Gold Dinar
Saddam and pricing oil in Euros
The Radix Podcast, “America, A Prophecy”