Anything Goes : Dr. Strangelove trivia by Stephen Mitchell

Did you know that the Peace On Earth/Purity Of Essence theme for the code prefix entered into the 'C.R.M. 114 Discriminator' in Dr. Strangelove was a cryptic hommage by writer Terry Southern to Edgar Allan Poe? Southern credited his interest in writing as stemming from his mother reading Poe's works to him when he was ill as a child.