Is the premier threatening to explode this if our planes carry out their attack?

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

You can hear this line at 00:50:01 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Cobalt Thorium G has a radioactive half-life of 93 years.

- If you take, say, 50 H-bombs in the hundred megaton range and jacket them with Cobalt Thorium G...

- When they are exploded, they will produce a doomsday shroud, a lethal cloud of radioactivity which will encircle the Earth for 93 years.

- Oh, what a load of commie bull. I mean, after all...

- I'm afraid I don't understand something, Alexi.

- Is the premier threatening to explode this if our planes carry out their attack?

- No, sir. It is not a thing a sane man would do.

- The Doomsday Machine is designed to trigger itself automatically.

- But surely you can disarm it somehow?

- No. It is designed to explode if any attempt is ever made to untrigger it.

- Automatically?

[...]

Dr. Strangelove Sound Clip

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Sound clips of the best quotes and sound fx from the Dr. Strangelove (1964) movie soundboard. All the audio clips are in wav and mp3 format.

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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