I think we're well overdue for a surveillance DrStrangelove.
Is it impotence that causes people to surveil? Some other voyeuristic impulse? Could be fun to explore.
Is it impotence that causes people to surveil? Some other voyeuristic impulse? Could be fun to explore.
It also gets at the culture of corruption surveillance and power engender.
Though when you realize that the surveillance required dedicated observers and resulted in paper records, you realize how vastly more capable current US operations are.
"Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win"
it was an absurd time as the world changed so radically so quickly and strategists scrambled to figure out doctrine, policy, strategy, and how to use the emerging thinking of game theory.
another book on the evolution of nuclear policy is 'the dead hand', which looks at the emergence of nuclear deterrence from the first bomb through the recent years following the breakup of the USSR. the dead hand referred to in the title is the failsafe the soviets built to strike back once they had been demolished.
It wouldn't work. No film depiction could possibly be as absurd as what has already been foisted onto our everyday lives already.
Oh yeah. It could work.