Obama Rents Dr. Strangelove Movie to “Brush Up” on Nuclear Strategy
From The Spotted Owl
CHICAGO (TSO) - President-elect Obama and his national security advisory team popped some popcorn and watched "Dr. Strangelove" in an effort to learn something about nuclear deterrence and strategy.
The 1964 Stanley Kubrick dark comedy classic about nuclear war, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, provided a hilarious introduction to the horror of thermonuclear annihilation. One advisor, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confessed, "The scene where Slim Pickens rides the bomb down to the earth like a cowboy was a riot." "Barack was laughing so hard some of his chai latte was coming out his nose."
After the movie, the President-elect took a moment to speak with reporters, "I think that, when one considers the concept of a rogue nation acquiring the bomb, we have to be careful about blowing it out of proportion." "As this movie demonstrates, even during the height of the cold war the subject of nuclear war was pretty lighthearted."
The President-elect then sat down to watch "Delta Farce," starring Larry the Cable Guy, to catch up on current conventional military strategy.
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