I still haven’t watched the movie. It's on top of my list now.I remember watching this movie for the first time in college 2nd year I think.... I got hooked on kubrick after that....
This is the part that came uncannily close for the USAF:
This stuff was all super classified back then as SAC was still the major deterrent the US had....till way more ICBMs and SSBNs came online in the 70s onwards.