What is the CRM-114 thing?
CRM 114 made it first appearance in a Kubrick film in Dr Strangelove (1963), according to the production designer, Ken Adam, “Stanley was so steeped in his material [that] his conversation was full of megadeaths, gyro headings and CRM 114s.” The source is Peter Bryant’s(1) book “Red Alert,” Communication officer Mellows is describing the code procedure to Captain Brown: “To ensure the enemy cannot plant false transmissions and fake orders, once the attack orders have been passed and acknowledged the CRM 114 is to be switched into the receiver circuit. The three code letters of the period are to be set on the alphabet dials of the CRM 114, which will then block any transmissions other than those preceded by the set letters from being fed into the receiver.” (2) Kubrick, allegedly made references it to CRM 114 in a number of his subsequent films, most notably in A Clockwork Orange Alex is injected with ‘serum 114’, additionally one of the pods in 2001 is marked with this code and, in Eye
