For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western

leaders at the Soviet Union had been at work on what was dockly-hindered to be the

ultimate weapon, a Doomsday device.

What they were building, no one could say.

Hello now playing listeners.

It's your host, Stuart.

Here to reassure you that the world has not come to an end, no matter how crazy things

feel right now, we all just have to look back at the 40-year cold war between America and

the Soviet Union to recall that living through history is stressful, but mankind is also resilient

when we learn to stop worrying and find a little black comedy in crisis.

That's what I hope to do anyway, now that now playing is focused this April on the 1964

Stanley Kubrick classic Doctor Strange Love.

It's the movie that dared to laugh at nuclear annihilation made in the months right after

the Cuban Missile Crisis when it really looked like a bunch of a button could end at all.

Pink Panther star Peter Sellers earned a well-deserved Oscar nomination, playing three parts,

a flustered British soldier, an incredulous American president, and a diabolical Nazi scientist,

all trying to duck and cover as slim pickens prepares to ride a 50-megaton warhead into

movie history.

It was the scariest farce of the 1960s, but doesn't have any wisdom for today's audience.

I launched into that debate with co-host Jacob and Arnie last Friday, here's a portion

of that review.

I think this opening scene after you're told about the Doomstated of the Vice and you

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