Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8.1/10 After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
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