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Jennifer McBride
University Wire
10-13-2004
(Oregon Daily Emerald) (U-WIRE) EUGENE, Ore. -- Next month "Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," widely acclaimed as one of the greatest satirical films of all time, will be re-released in a 40th Anniversary Special Edition DVD. For those who haven't seen Stanley Kubrick's 1964 masterpiece, it's about the lighter side of nuclear destruction. By chance, the re-release coincides with the most ridiculous nuclear fiction of our day -- President Bush's plan to begin deployment of a national missile defense.

The Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) is the modern incarnation of Reagan's "Star Wars" program, a ...

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