A nuclear war scenario is once more gripping the world
As a cornered Russian President Vladimir Putin talks up the potential for nuclear war in Ukraine, reverberations from the conflict could have a key bearing on Australia’s future relations with China.
Towards the end of the film Dr. Strangelove, a rogue US bomber approaches a Russian nuclear missile site. The bomb bay is damaged, but Major T.J. “King” Kong repairs it while straddling an H-bomb.
Suddenly, the bay doors open, and the bomb is dropped. Kong hoots and hollers as he rides the falling bomb, cowboy-style, until it detonates over the target. The film ends in a montage of nuclear explosions, accompanied by the Vera Lynn song, We’ll Meet Again.
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Andrew Clark was a senior writer at The Australian Financial Review.
