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“Not very educational” from a factual point of view, perhaps, but I think it does show something about the Cold War mentality / mindset — we forget nowadays that a lot of the rhetoric in “Dr. Strangelove” was real stuff that real people were saying and believing. (Not the P.O.E. stuff, but the — well, the “mine shaft gap” comes to mind, for instance.) It’s a hilarious movie even if you don’t think about the context, but if you pay attention to the context you do get a decent, though obviously distorted, view of how people thought about things “back then”…