|
olesha, fatman and little boy dvd, , los alamos, thefat man in history, computer books: general, sue scott, mary pat gleason, david newton, backup, literature, grammy award for best short form music video, political science, ron frazier (ii), ozone, august 9, fatmanclothing.com, nostalgic, r&b, 2003,
|
(The name was his own, but he got the idea from “Red Alert,” which he, too, had admired.) In Kahn’s book, the Doomsday Machine is an example of the sort of deterrent that appeals to the military mind but that is dangerously destabilizing. Since nations are not suicidal, its only use is to threaten. “The whole point of the Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep magazine it a secret!” as Strangelove complains to the Soviet Ambassador. There were magazine a number of possible models for the character of Strangelove (who at one point magazine tells the President about a report on Doomsday Machines prepared by the Bland Corporation): Wernher von Braun, Teller, even Henry Kissinger, who was an admirer of “On Thermonuclear War,” and whose book “Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy” (1957) pondered the possibility of tactical nuclear wars.
|
