SASW%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (07/02/83)
From: Steven A. Swernofsky <SASW @ MIT-MC> From: Newman.ES at PARC-MAXC.ARPA Actually, the "Doomsday Machine" portrayed in this movie was a quite serious proposal made by Herman Kahn of the RAND Corporation in the early 1960's. The title character is a parody of Kahn, and the movie satirizes, among many other things, the type of "thinking about the unthinkable" made infamous by Kahn and other RANDites. I was told instead that the title character was a parody of Kubrick's government professor at Harvard. Guess who that is? (Hint -- he later became a key adviser to a Republican President.) -- Steve