Dr. Strangelove

The New Yorker this week has an article (not online) about Herman Kahn, the RAND think tank denizen who was the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." If you're old enough to remember the 1950s, then you remember the hysteria over nuclear war - hiding under desks, building fallout shelters, Nike bases, etc. One interesting tidbit from this article is that we now know the true number of nuclear missiles the Soviet Union had in 1960: four. Yeah, you read that right: four.