Under the authority granted me as director of weapons research and development...

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

You can hear this line at 00:51:11 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.

- This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that.

- Our source was The New York Times.

- Dr. Strangelove, do we have anything like that in the works?

- A moment, please, Mr. President.

- Under the authority granted me as director of weapons research and development...

- I commissioned last year a study of this project by the Bland Corporation.

- Based on the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent for reasons which, at this moment, must be all too obvious.

- Then you mean it is possible for them to have built such a thing?

- Mr. President, the technology required is easily within the means of even the smallest nuclear power.

[...]

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