53 years ago, 'Dr. Stranglove' premiere was postponed

When asked about the nuclear-mad antics of Dr. Strangelove, Pentagon whistleblower Dan Ellsberg said, "For those of us who worked in the Pentagon, the movie was a documentary." As nuclear historian Eric Schlosser has written, "almost everything" in the movie was true.  JFK was disturbed at the laxity of U.S. nuclear control regime, and sought to tighten…