First Warren Zevon, then Leni Riefenstahl, and now Edward Teller–the original man who learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
(Incidentally, I don’t want to give the idea that Zevon somehow belongs in the same group with Hitler’s most talented propagandist and a man who could never say anything bad about nuclear weapons but he might appreciate the perverse irony.)
For anyone interested in Dr. Teller, or the last couple of decades of fascination with high-tech space weaponry, this is a must-read.
I was reading the transcript of the PBS show “The American Experience: Race for the Superbomb” the other day, and his quotes really scare me. The comparison to Dr. Strangelove is really quite appropriate.
“Animals will be bred and SLAUGHTERED…!”
We’ll meet again,
don’t know where,
don’t know when,
but I know we’ll meet again some sunny day!
Why is this in the Pit? Strangelove wasn’t that bad a movie…
Nor was Triumph of the Will.
I met Ed Teller when he gave a speech at my college. He was a really interesting guy who had seen and done it all.
Nuke What an apt name for this thread. 
Wasn’t Dr. Strangelove the one who couldn’t help giving the “Heil Hitler” all the time? Hardly fair to compare Teller, who I believe fled from the Nazis, with this character. I’d though Von Braun was the more obvious basis for this character - except he had nothing to do with the bomb.
I long thought Dr Strangelove was based on Kissinger, the story being that Terry Southern had met him at a party, but I Googled it so you guys couldn’t prove me wrong. Nope, neither he nor Kubrick had heard of Kissinger yet and Strangelove was based on Teller and von Braun. Southern did admit the resemblence to Kissinger was “quite remarkable and a bit scary.”
I highly recommend this movie. It has amazing footage of atomic bomb testing, as well as some interesting excerpts from an interview with Teller.
His moral-indifference-under-the-cover-of-scientific-curiosity is, or was, pretty scary to me.
You were close, though, dropzone; Kissinger was based on Dr. Strangelove 