There is a wickedly funny moment in the 1964 anti-war film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb that really resonates with today’s perilous geopolitical landscape.
Explaining how the world-ending device works to a nervous U.S. president, the mad nuclear scientist (Strangelove, played by Peter Sellers) exclaims, “The whole point of a doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret!”
There is more than a grain of real-world truth in that dark, Cold War-era satire.
This week, the world was bombarded by chilling reports that Moscow and Washington have stopped sharing information about their strategic nuclear
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