Gershom Gorenberg
Benny Morris’s riff on nuking Iran, featured on Friday’s New York Times op-ed page, conjures up Maj. Kong’s bronco-riding whoop at the end of Dr. Strangelove, and not just because that film revealed the glee with which the military-minded can look forward to apocalypse. Playing off the terrifying “Fail-Safe,” Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers [...]
Channeling Strangelove: Benny Morris on Iran
July 20th, 2008 · 13 Comments · Politics and Policy
Tags: Benny Morris·Dr. Strangelove·Fail-Safe·Iran·Richard Clark·Stanley Kubrick
