In January of 1964, the movie "Dr. Strangelove" was released into the theaters. It was a lighthearted story about a nuclear incident resulting in the proverbial "End of the World." In the story, an U.S. Air Force General becomes unstable and issues orders for a nuclear attack on Russia. The Russians are immediately notified and despite sharing of technological information on the air craft’s defense systems they cannot be stopped. The Russians confide that they have built a Dooms Day device that will assure mutual annihilation in the advent of any detected attack on Russian soil. It has been kept a secret. So in reality its deterrence value is mute. As the events unfold all of the planes attacking Russia are shot down except for one. The movie concludes with the pilot of the surviving bomber riding the nuclear bomb like a rodeo bull as it falls on Moscow.