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A safeguard?

3 seconds sound clip from the Dr. Strangelove movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:26:37 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Plan R?

- Plan R is an emergency war plan in which a lower-echelon commander may order nuclear retaliation after a sneak attack if the normal chain of command has been disrupted.

- You approved it, sir. You must remember.

- Surely you must recall, sir, when Senator Buford made that big hassle about our deterrent lacking credibility.

- The idea was for Plan R to be a sort of retaliatory safeguard.

- A safeguard?

- Well, I admit the human element seems to have failed us here.

- But the idea was to discourage the Russkies from any hope that they could knock out Washington, and yourself, sir, as part of a general sneak attack...

- And escape retaliation because of lack of proper command and control.

- Well, I assume then that the planes will return automatically once they reach their fail-safe points.

- Well, no, sir, I'm afraid not.

[...]

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Actors: Peter Sellers (Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove), George C. Scott (General Buck Turgidson), Sterling Hayden (General Jack D. Ripper), Slim Pickens (Major T. J. "King" Kong)

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