dr. strangelove. ken i think covered dr. gelove elements pretty thoroughly so i won't repeat that but when you actually look at the movie and read kahn it's very clearly whether kubrick suspended it or not the underlying point of the movie re-enforces kahn's own point of view which is that the prevailing military strategy the prevailing nuclear military strategy that the u.s. had was absurd. whereas as he once famously said to the folks in the air force, gentlemen, you don't have a war plan, you have a war orgasm. [laughter] >> and by writing the book that he did, i think he directly and by talking about the doomsday machine as the paradoxical logical parity of that strategy i think brought far greater clarity of what the strategy ought to be along with his colleagues at rand. but the other point i want to get to get at is this idea that kahn, the amoral physicist. i'm not convinced he was a physicist. he was a physicist by training but he wasn't a physicist by intellectual demeanor. as ken noted he fell in love with rand whe

dr. strangelove. how are you? [laughter] >> just a couple of reports that i conduct research in nuclear deterrence theory that and i think sun tzu said it best when he said war is the life and death of a state that must be pondered deeply, like it or not. so dr. collins research on nuclear weapons was totally valid between the war fighting approach that is a silly with him and colin gray, versus minimal deterrence. which leads to something that was brought up as well. which i think is still very important as a matter of life and death of the united states, which is the connection between extended deterrence and the credibility issues that come up with extended deterrence to other states, and proliferation. so take israel. the united states extends deterrence to israel, in effect, sort of announced that its not like western europe and japan. but that raises -- there's a fundamental credibility question always with extended deterrence of, would you really trade new york or tel aviv, or new york or wherever? and that

dr. strangelove. jack d. ripper was the general's name. sleeve and the people who worked with him ran into tremendous resistance, and they got to eisenhower, and he understood what they were trying to do and gave them carte blanche just in time. he signed off on december 13th, and he had his heart attack ten days later. >> how long have you been researching this book? >> i worked on the book for 14 years altogether but ten intensive years. i did 52 interviews with schreever, interviewed everybody who worked with him chasing the grim reaper because these were older men. he told everybody he worked with, talk to this man, tell him the truth. and he gave me all of his papers and his diary, all of which were terribly valuable because -- but this is not, this book is written not as an academic history, it's written as a fast-paced narrative in novelistic form because i believe in recreating history for the reader, bringing the reader into history. and that's what i do here. >> fifteen years of research, that's a long time. did your views on the

dr. strangelove. and jack d. ripper with the general's name.and so key in the people he worked with had a tremendous resistance from the bomber people. they got to eisenhower and eisenhower understood that they were trying to do. just in time he signed off on september 13th and had his heart attack ten days later. >> how long have you been researching this book waxed >> i worked on the book for 14 years altogether with ten intensive years. i did 52 interviews with schriever and interviewed another 120 people. everybody who was alive that worked with them, chasing the grim reaper because these people were older men and i had to catch them before the grim reaper day. they all cooperated with me. schriever told everyone he worked with talk to this man and tell them the truth. he gave me all of his papers in his diary which were extremely valuable. this is not -- this book is read not as an academic history. it's written as a fast-paced narrative and novelistic form because i believe in re-creating history for the reader. bringing the reader into h

dr. strangelove. that movie was being made but they came out after a kennedy bush shot in dallas.ine but slim pickens. they are going through their emergency supplies and it is a candy bar, bubble gum, whatever it all is anslem says a fellow could have a pretty good time in dallas. they changed it to dais. his lips if you look closely you can say he was saying dallas but because of an antecede in event. what if right after dick cheney shot his friend in the face, somebody says that dog don't hunt or after we find out about that john edwards suspected love child, telling about edwards in st. don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. to save this is an expression. we know it is an expression. the point is that was said after probably the most famous political speech, the most watched political speech i would say in elise 20 years and that was the most famous line from the most famous political speech in 20 years. sarah palin pointing to her lips and also iran to various headlines and there were a lot of jokes about sarah palin's lipstick and what is the difference between sarah p

dr. strangelove. the movie was being made but then it came out after kennedy was shot.hey had a very funny line but slim pickens. they are going through their emergency supplies and a candy bar, bubblegum, whatever it all is and slim pickens says a fellow could have a pretty good time in dallas or something to that effect. they changed it to vigorous. is lips if you look closely he can see he was still saying dallas because of an antecede need then to. what if right after dick cheney had shot his friend in the face someone said that dog don't hunt or after we find out about the john edwards suspected love child, telling about edwards and sing don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, get it? to say this is an expression, we know it is an expression. the point is it was set after probably the most famous political speech, the most watched political speech i would say in at least 20 years and that was the most famous line from the most famous political speech in 20 years, sarah palin pointing to her lips and saying lipstick and also iran through various headlines. ther