Dr. Strangelove is a comedy that pokes fun at how close the world was to complete destruction during the cold war...basically America gets the threat of a nuclear attack from the Soviets and dispatch their own attack
Later the president tries to recall the attack however one plane has gone into radio silence and the commanding general seems to believe the Soviets are brainwashing Americans with toothpaste I think it was so he has no intention of stopping the plane
Wayne posted some dialouge of a phone call between the US and Russian leaders in which they are all panicking over the plane about to attack Russia