ALEXEI DE SADESKIY, in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb , served as Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the administration of Party General Secretary, Prime Minister of the Supreme Soviet, and President of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Kissov. He held that position on that terrible day known as D-Day, the D standing for Detonation, or Doom. Or in Russian, Dosvedanya --good-bye. Good-bye to the world as men knew it at the time.On that day, he received a summons to come to the Pentagon, no less--and all the way into the E-Ring, then into the War Room. There he met President Merkin Muffley and General Buck Turgidson USAF, the Air Force Chief of Staff.A spy to the end, he carried at least two disguised cameras. General Turgidson caught him with one of them, wrestled it away from him, and handed it to President Muffley. Still, the President asked him to help introduce him to Premier Kissov. (And to advise him on how to reach him by telephone. Dmitriy Kissov was a man of the people, but he was also a man.)Muffley admitted that one of his generals had ordered his aircraft to attack Russia! After which the Premier asked to speak to his Ambassador. The message was dire: the Doomsday Machine was on-line. If so much as one bomb fell on Soviet territory, at least fifty 100-megaton bombs, jacketed with Cobalt-Thorium Alloy G, would detonate and shower the earth with a doomsday shroud --a cloud of fallout that would poison the atmosphere and the surface of the earth for ninety-three years.Sadly, it happened. Show less «