SIR, I HAVE A PLAN
MEIN FUHRER, I CAN WALK!
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"we have a doomsday device? who would ever design such a thing?"
operation paperclip Nazi rolls in 
Kubrick nailed it
Best Kubrick movie.
The most fun and terrifying thing about the movie is how similar General Ripper's 1960s brainworms are to modern ones. Even the fluoride conspiracism.
exactly
was anything in it wrong?
Some of the names are made up, for example the man "Dick Turgidson" is based on was actually called "Penis Hardon" IRL, but even Kubrick thought that was a bit much.
seems not
When you infer the classified details of the cockpit of a nuclear bomber so accurately that the feds think there was a leak.
Can confirm; got to tour the interior of a decommissioned B-52D or G once and there was even a James Earl Jones in there. It was uncanny.
If I recall they took the B-17 interior and just stretched it to the aprox size of a B-52. Which is a whole "Guys, you don't have a monopoly on how to design aircraft, there's only so many ways to make a solid airframe" moment.
Although the Air Force now denies this claim, according to more than one source I contacted, the code necessary to launch a missile was set to be the same at every Minuteman site: 00000000.
Command and Control was a good read back in my war nerdier days; didn't see the article's author was Eric Schlosser until the end of it