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2. Dr. Strangelove - Wikipedia

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   Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (known simply and more commonly as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 political satire black comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is loosely based on the thriller novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, who wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry ...

3. CRM 114 (fictional device) - Wikipedia

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   The CRM 114 on the B-52 in Dr. Strangelove. The CRM 114 Discriminator is a fictional piece of radio equipment in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove (1964), the destruction of which prevents the crew of a B-52 from receiving the recall code that would stop them from dropping their hydrogen bomb payloads onto Soviet territory.

4. Herman Kahn - Wikipedia

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   In the film, Dr. Strangelove refers to a report on the Doomsday Machine by the "BLAND Corporation", a parody of the RAND Corporation. [22] Kahn gave Kubrick the idea for the " Doomsday Machine ", a device which would immediately cause the destruction of the entire planet in the event of a nuclear attack.

5. Doomsday device - Wikipedia

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   Many hypothetical doomsday devices are based on salted hydrogen bombs creating large amounts of nuclear fallout.. A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction – usually a weapon or weapons system – which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly Earth, or destroy the planet itself, bringing "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth.

6. Talk:Doomsday device - Wikipedia

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   I want to suggest some additions. In regard to the above, the Soviet doomsday device was apparently real. Times Online August 08, 2007 Dr Strangelove and the real Dooms day machine by Christopher Coker reviewing the book: PD Smith's Doomsday Men: the Real Dr Strangelove and the dream of the Super weapon. 552 pages, Allen Lane.

7. Laurie Johnson - Wikipedia

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   Johnson released albums of his band playing music from The Avengers, The New Avengers and The Professionals, albums of his scores for The First Men in the Moon, Dr Strangelove and Captain Kronos, and two albums of him conducting compositions of others: the film music of Dmitri Tiomkin, and Bernard Herrmann's suite for North by Northwest.

8. Red Alert (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Red Alert was more solemn than its film version and it did not include the character Dr. Strangelove, though the main plot and technical elements were quite similar. A novelisation of the actual film, rather than a reprint of the original novel, was published by George, based on an early draft in which aliens try to understand what happened ...

9. Peter George (author) - Wikipedia

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   After the movie was released, he wrote a novelisation of Dr. Strangelove and dedicated it to Kubrick. It was out of print for many years but was to be re-issued in 2015 by Candy Jar Ltd and features previously unpublished material concerning Strangelove's early career, with a foreword by George's son, David. [8]