:50:02
Is the premier threatening to explode it
ifour planes carry out their attack?
:50:06
No, sir. It is not a thing
a sane man would do.
:50:08
The doomsday machine is designed
to trigger itselfautomatically.
:50:11
Surelyyou can disarm it somehow.
:50:13
It is designed to explode if
any attempt is made to un-trigger it.
:50:17
Automatically?
:50:19
It's a Commie trick!
We're wasting valuable time!
:50:21
Look at the big board!
They're getting ready to clobber us!
:50:25
This is absolute madness.
Why should you build such a thing?
:50:29
There are those ofus
who fought against it.
:50:31
But in the end, we could not keep up
with the expense involved...
:50:34
in the arms race, the space race
and the peace race.
:50:38
At the same time, our people grumbled
for more nylons and washing machines.
:50:43
Our doomsday scheme cost us
just a small fraction...
:50:46
ofwhat we have been spending on defense
in a singleyear.
:50:49
The deciding factorwas when we learned
your countrywas working similarly...
:50:54
and we were afraid ofa doomsday gap!
:50:56
This is preposterous! I've never
approved ofanything like that.
:50:59
Our source was The New York Times.
:51:02
Dr. Strangelove, do we have anything
like that in the works?
:51:06
A moment, please, Mr. President.
:51:11
Under the authority granted me...
:51:15
as director ofweapons research
and development...
:51:19
I commissioned lastyear
a study ofthis project...
:51:23
by the Bland Corporation.
:51:26
Based on the findings ofthe report...
:51:29
my conclusion was that this idea
was not a practical deterrent...
:51:35
for reasons which at this moment
must be all too obvious.
:51:38
You mean it is possible for them
to have built such a thing?
:51:46
Mr. President, the technology required
is easilywithin the means...
:51:51
ofeven the smallest nuclear power.
:51:55
It requires only the will to do so.