Almost everything about Stanley Kubricks Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove feels surreal, but some of the situations it depicts turn out to have been disquietingly realistic. Eric Schlosser, author of the celebrated Fast Food Nation — which Richard Linklater turned into a movie starring Greg Kinnear and Bruce Willis — says that the scenario of a crazed general launching a nuclear strike without presidential approval was actually possible during the era. …
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