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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus observe how the atomic bomb fears of 1964 DR STRANGELOVE do not show much in 2024. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus observe how the atomic bomb fears of 1964 DR STRANGELOVE do not show much in 2024. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

1953 Harry Event Nevada

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, there is another way.

0:30.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

0:32.0

I'm Gaius, Dramatic is with me and we're going to the year in 1964.

0:37.0

Germanicus and I are old enough to remember 1964. We were young people.

0:42.0

There was a movie that was discordant with the period of

0:48.3

strength in America. The movie was called Dr Strange Love or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

0:58.4

It was dark, dark comedy.

1:02.2

It starred Peter Sellers and are a raft of terrific character actors.

1:07.0

The scenario is straightforward.

1:10.0

A commander of an airwing loaded with megaton bombs, B-52s, goes mad and orders the

1:21.8

airwing to attack the Soviet Union.

1:25.0

When Washington learns about this, they spend all of their effort trying to convince the Russians how to bring down this air wing.

1:35.0

At the same time they try to figure out how to recall the air wing.

1:40.0

It works perfectly except for one bomber is badly damaged by the Russians but doesn't go down and is going to ride its way through to a secondary target.

1:52.0

This is a counter force strike. They're only hitting nuclear

1:57.4

weapons sites. They're not hitting the cities. That's something we talk about today. And therein lies the effort that Germanicus and

2:07.4

I are going to lavish on this, because no one in the presidential contest, which pay a great deal attention to is talking about counter value, counter force.

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