Courtesy of The Westerby Report, a new weblog looking quite promising (check it out!): Strangelove in 2001: Kubrick’s Lost Doomsday Scenario

A “suitcase nuclear bomb” being detonated by a “potential enemy” in Washington, DC in a sneak attack?

Film director Stanley Kubrick suggested just such a scenario in 1994.

What seemed wildly implausible before September 11th — like a subplot from the director’s apocalyptic classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb — no longer seems so far-fetched.

Kubrick’s politically-charged essay, which The New York Times refused to publish in 1994, warned of the potential of nuclear attack caused by “accident, miscalculation or madness.”

Penned by the director for the 30th anniversary of Dr. Strangelove, the remarks make no secret of Kubrick’s fear that nuclear peril lay ahead. RetroFuture