Ya, in some respects real life was weirder than the film. Edward Teller, for instance, who's at least part of thr Dr. Strangelove character, wanted to develop a bomb big enough that you didn't have to drop it out of a plane or put it in a missile, you just detonate in your own country and it kills people on the other side of the world as well as your own people. This is a serious respected scientist, the guy who invented the hydrogen bomb. Absolutely nuts.