See Dr. Strangelove on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2008, William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary, →ISBN, page 654:",
"text": "When it was important in 1969 for Henry Kissinger to gain a reputation as a “secret swinger” to create a Dr. Strangelove reputation and provide cover for secret trips, he would appeal to White House wags and their friends (Richard Moore, television producer Paul Keyes, and this writer) for lines making that point.",
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"ref": "2010, Jeff Goodell, How to Cool the Planet, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2015, Katrine Marcal, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, →ISBN, page 62:",
"text": "His game theory became the foundation for modern finance. Dr Strangelove went to work on Wall Street.",
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"ref": "2012, Dr J Richardson, War, Science and Terrorism: From Laboratory to Open Conflict, →ISBN:",
"text": "In both the world of new science and that of quick-fix military technology we need, more than ever, to be on perpetual guard against the Dr Strangeloves of the future.",
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"ref": "2014, Jerry Kroth, Implosion: Delusion, denial, and the prospect of collapse, →ISBN, page 240:",
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"ref": "2014, Alex Constantine, Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America, →ISBN, page 255:",
"text": "But CIA observers everywhere choked when CNN announced that a psychological trauma team, mustered by the American Psychological Association, would converge in Oklahoma City to treat survivors of the explosion and the victims' families—led by none other than Dr. Louis Jolyon West of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, the breeding ground of some of the most necrotizing Dr. Strangeloves in the mind control business.",
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