Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama’s nuclear spring.
Now then, Dmitri. You know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb, Dmitri. The hydrogen bomb. —President Merkin Muffley to Premier Dmitri Kissov, 1964. Dmitri, we agreed. —President Barack Obama to President Dmitri Medvedev, 2010. “Dr. Strangelove” is a lot less scary than it used to [...]