A scene from Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
General "Buck" Turgidson George C. Scott

[reading a transcript of a phone call by General Ripper]

'They are on their way in and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. My boys will give you the best kind of start, fourteen hundred megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now. So let's get going. There's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail in peace and freedom from fear and in true health through the purity and essence of our natural fluids. God bless you all.' Then he hung up.

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