ON THIS DAY: In 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York -- they were convicted of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, though there remains some controversy about whether they were actually guilty of the crime. Nuclear anxiety reached its height in the movies a decade later, with 1964's DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB, director Stanley Kubrick's wicked satire on the paranoia of the Cold War era. [today's movie at IMDb]

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