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Sixty years after Kubrick’s film, meet the U.S.’s real Dr. Strangelove
SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the sorry career of Brett McGurk.
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Is that a chilling echo of Dr. Strangelove we are hearing from Biden’s nominee to oversee America’s nuclear weapons arsenal?
Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove featured an unhinged Air Force General named Jack D. Ripper, who orders a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union after he becomes convinced that the Soviets were polluting the U.S. water supply.
![Anthony J. Cotton [Source: airandspaceforces.com]; left, Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove [Source: commonedge.org ] [Collage courtesy of Steve Brown.]](https://f3b9m7v4.delivery.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-27-at-24337-PM-200x200.png)