:36:01
. . .of the postwar period,
the idea that hanging over us. . .
:36:05
. . .was nuclear oblivion. This is the
time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
:36:09
It can't have possibly got
closer than those few days. . .
:36:14
. . .where one mistake by either side
could have started World War III.
:36:19
This piece of satire just hit it
right on the button. . .
:36:23
. . .and it was frightening.
Very, very frightening.
:36:26
Well, now, what happened is. . .
:36:29
. . .one of our base commanders,
he had a sort of. . . .
:36:33
Well, he went a little funny
in the head.
:36:36
You know, just a little funny.
:36:41
He went and did a silly thing.
:36:44
Well, I'll tell you what he did,
he ordered his planes. . .
:36:49
. . .to attack your country.
:36:52
Well, let me finish, Dimitri.
:36:55
Let me finish, Dimitri.
:36:58
Well, how do you think
I feel about it?
:37:00
He was able to say
what we all knew. . .
:37:05
. . .about the madness of it.
:37:07
He had bought the book and was
trying to make it straight. . .
:37:11
. . .and realized that he couldn't,
that it was so utterly insane. . .
:37:15
. . .that it couldn't be done that way.
:37:18
And what he did was say that.
That this is insane, I mean. . .
:37:21
. . .who are we kidding?
:37:27
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here.
This is the war room!
:37:30
And it ever after made it
very difficult. . .
:37:34
. . .to take seriously
the Strategic Air Command.
:37:38
I mean, they seemed like they
were nuts from then on.
:37:42
I think they probably were.
:37:44
The most extraordinary part
of Dr. Strangelove for me. . .
:37:48
. . .was that 30 years on as part
of a BBC team, I investigated. . .
:37:52
. . .over a period of two years, many
of the central tenets in the film.
:37:56
What had happened in reality. . .
:37:58
. . .what had happened to Strategic
Air Command in the '50s and '60s.