GEN. RIPPER: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk … ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children’s ice cream.
CAPT. MANDRAKE: Lord, Jack.
GEN. RIPPER: You know when fluoridation first began?
CAPT. MANDRAKE: I — no, no. I don’t, Jack.
GEN. RIPPER: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.Peter George (1924-1996) British writer
Doctor Strangelove (1964)
with Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern