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Subject: Dr. Strangelove and "The Doomsday Machine"
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Date: Sat, 2-Jul-83 00:25:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  2 00:25:00 1983
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From:  Steven A. Swernofsky 

    From: Newman.ES at PARC-MAXC.ARPA
         Actually, the "Doomsday Machine" portrayed in this movie was a
    quite serious proposal made by Herman Kahn of the RAND Corporation in
    the early 1960's.  The title character is a parody of Kahn, and the
    movie satirizes, among many other things, the type of "thinking about
    the unthinkable" made infamous by Kahn and other RANDites.

I was told instead that the title character was a parody of Kubrick's
government professor at Harvard.  Guess who that is?  (Hint -- he later
became a key adviser to a Republican President.)

-- Steve