| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33341 |
| QUOTATION: | Mr. President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter, Peter George (1925–1966), U.S. screenwriter, and Terry Southern (1928–1995), U.S. screenwriter. General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, after Dr. Strangelove has suggested selected Americans survive nuclear fallout by living underground in mines (1964).
Adapted from Peter George’s novel Red Alert, which he wrote under the pseudonym Peter Bryant. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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