Love the quote and the idea about the bomb and Stanley Kubrick too but you can make a good case that it was Herman Kahn's work at the RAND Corporation and the a

Love the quote and the idea about the bomb and Stanley Kubrick too but you can make a good case that it was Herman Kahn's work at the RAND Corporation and the adoption by the US of 2nd strike capability on his recommendation that kept the world from a nuclear war. You can call that the Dr Strangelove saved the world theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Kahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Kahn