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MOVIE MASTERPIECE OPENED ON THIS DAY

Criterion Announces June 2016 Titles Including Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE | Film Pulse
Peter Sellers

Stanley Kubrick’s black comic masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove or:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
opened in
theaters to both critical and popular acclaim. The movie’s
popularity was evidence of changing attitudes toward atomic
weapons and the concept of nuclear deterrence.

Dr. Strangelove Vintage Stanley Kubrick Movie Poster

Stanley KuBLOG: Dr Strangelove (or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb) – A ...
Peter Sellers

Movie Review: Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) | The ...
Peter Sellers

Ten War Film Performances That Should Have Been Nominated for Academy Awards – Filmbobbery
George C. Scott

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 123movies ...
Sterling Hayden

Before Putin, 1980s movies terrorized us with nuclear war | Digital Trends
Slim Pickens

At The Back: Dr. Strangelove

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BOMBING RAID BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1943

Bomber crew World War II
A B-17 crew from the United States Army Air Force’s Eighth
Air Force, 385th Bomb Group, plot a target on a map prior
to a mission.

The U.S. Eighth Air Force launched its bombing campaign against
Nazi Germany, one of the largest, most important and most
devastating strategic initiatives in the annals of warfare, on this
day in history, Jan. 27, 1943.
 

Boeing B-17 bomber

World War II bombings weakened upper atmosphere at edge of space | Ars Technica

World War II bomber
The crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress Knock-out Dropper
bomber.

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AIR FORCE BOMBER’S FIRST FLIGHT TODAY

Newest Air Force stealth bomber, the $750M B-21 Raider, takes first flight

B-21 Raider test flight in California
Newest Air Force stealth bomber, the $750M B-21 Raider,
takes to the air for the time. 

The U.S. Air Force’s long-awaited B-21 stealth bomber took its
first test flight in California on Friday.

According to the Air Force, the aircraft, developed by Northrop Grumman, is expected to be operational by 2030. It can carry
both "conventional and nuclear munitions" and will "provide
our nation with a strategic asset capable of penetrating enemy
air defenses in highly contested environments and striking
targets anywhere in the world."
(FOX NEWS)

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BOMBER TOOK FLIGHT ON THIS DAY IN 1942

On September 21, 1942, the first Boeing B-29 prototype, the XB-29, made ...

On September 21, 1942, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress made its
debut flight in Seattle,
Washington. It was the largest bomber
used in the war by any nation.        
        
        
        
        
 General Henry Arnold – Library Trust Fund  
The B-29 was conceived in 1939 by Gen. Hap Arnold.

   

 Boeing B-29 bomber - Kansas Memory - Kansas Historical Society   
    
    
    
   

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

today in history

Ed Donahue - Washington, District of Columbia, United States | Professional Profile | LinkedIn
ED DONAHUE

James A Garfield (1831-1881) N20Th President Of The United States Steel Engraving American Late ...
James Abram Garfield
(November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881)

President James A. Garfield, who had been in
office just under four months, succumbed to
wounds inflicted by an
assassin 80 days
earlier
, on July 2.       

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