General Ripper's Attack On The Soviet Union

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At the time the president came to know about the General Ripper’s controversial orders to attack on Soviet Union with nuclear attack he warns the premier of the Soviet Union about the impeding attack with intention that they could protect themselves. After this intimation the Soviet Ambassador exposed to Muffley that the Soviet Union has organized a doomsday device consisting on several buried bombs contain Cobalt Thorium G which is highly toxic and destructive element and it is connected with an automatic system with an intention to automatically detonate the buried bombs at the time any nuclear attack strike the country. Dr Strangelove exposed the terrifying effects of Cobalt Thorium G by saying that after the explosion "The doomsday machine

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