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Is Dr Strangelove a caricature of Kissinger? I heard that in an Adam Curtis documentary.
by mongol 3y ago
Is Dr Strangelove a caricature of Kissinger? I heard that in an Adam Curtis documentary.
- chuckadams 3y agoHe’s based mostly on Edward Teller, progenitor of the H-bomb, with a good dollop of Werner Von Braun thrown in for flavor.
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoEdward Teller wasn't even a German and he never worked for the Nazis. Unlike Werner von Braun.
- ahartmetz 3y agoIt is possible to combine the substance of one character with the flavor of another. Edward Teller was a kind of "rationally mad" guy, and political, while von Braun was more of an ethically flexible engineer ("just let me build rockets") and, of course, German.
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoEdward Teller wasn't 'rationally mad', it was von Neumann who was very eager to drop atomic bombs on the Soviet Union. Besides picturing Edward Teller who actually came from a Jewish family and fled Germany when the Nazis came to power as a devout Nazi is not funny and doesn't even make any sense.
- iggldiggl 3y ago> just let me build rockets Once ze rockets are up, who cares where zey come down… https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-braun/ https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-braun/
- sillywalk 3y agoHe was at least partly based on Herman Kahn[0], author of the book "On Thermonuclear War" [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Kahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Kahn