When a deranged general launches a nuclear strike on his own authority, a room full of powerful men must call the bombers back.

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When a base commander convinced that fluoridated water is a communist plot sends his bomber wing against the Soviet Union on his own authority, in a world where the recall code exists only inside his head and the Soviets have built a doomsday machine they forgot to announce, a president, a borrowed British officer and a wheelchair-bound adviser must recall the planes, before the one crew too damaged to hear the order reaches its target.

Film: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · Writer(s): Terry Southern, Peter George, Stanley Kubrick · Director: Stanley Kubrick · Year: 1964