| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33342 |
| QUOTATION: | Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter, Peter George (1925–1966), U.S. screenwriter, and Terry Southern (1928–1995), U.S. screenwriter. General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, hearing about Soviet doomsday machine that will unleash deadly atomic radiation (1964).
Adapted from Peter George’s novel Red Alert, which he wrote under the pseudonym Peter Bryant. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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