Dr. Strangelove: The funhouse mirror

After an election that has left America more polarized than ever, maybe all of us are fighting in the War Room now.

Even on its face, the idea that an existential conflict in which both sides used the world as a chessboard, had lethal missiles pointed in each other’s direction and dispatched 24/7 air and sea patrols ready to launch was ever considered a “cold” war was patently absurd.

Two years before the release of Dr. Strangelove in 1964, one side tried to place nuc…