The Truth About Dr. Strangelove

It's the 40th Anniversary of Dr Strangelove and the inevitable "Special Edition" DVD is being released. Fred Kaplan in the New York Times, though, looks at how accurate the movie really was:

Those in the know watched "Dr. Strangelove" amused, like everyone else, but also stunned. Daniel Ellsberg, who later leaked the Pentagon Papers, was a RAND analyst and a consultant at the Defense Department when he and a mid-level official took off work one afternoon in 1964 to see the film. Mr. Ellsberg recently recalled that as they left the theater, he turned to his colleague and said, "That was a documentary!"