Dr. Strangelove

"Everyone is aware of the difficult and menacing situation in which human society - shrunk into one community with a common fate - finds itself, but only a few acts accordingly. Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragicomedy this is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. But on that stage, on which the actors under the floodlights play their ordained parts, our fate of tomorrow, life or death of the nations, is being decided. It would be different if the problem were not one of things made by man himself, such as the atomic bomb and other means of mass destruction equally

Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was released in the United States in 1964. It received a rating of PG by the Motion Picture Association of America. The film is directed by the renowned British director, Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick uses a mostly American cast, with Peter Sellers, a fellow Brit, playing three characters, including the one after which the film is titled. This is a film that is very formal in structure and execution. The aesthetics are very crisp, sharp, and intention. It is this unyielding commitment to form, grace, and order that makes Dr. Strangelove so hilarious and effective as a war film as well as a satire of war films. Drawing from chapter 9 of Benton's American Cinema, American Culture, the paper demonstrates that Dr. Strangelove conforms to the narrative and structural requirements of American war cinema.

Dr. Strangelove is one of the many masterpieces made by the great Stanley Kubrick. The movie was made in 1964 at the Shepperton Studios in London, UK. The time the movie was made is of great importance, in fact, it was made only two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kubrick pictures, in an extremely comical yet somewhat serious way, what the world would look like after one of the two forces (U.S vs. USSR) was triggered in initializing nuclear warfare.

The filmmakers’ main ideas are that the government misled and lied to the people of the U.S. so that they would believe that the atomic bomb would have no effect on their health and security, that we should question if the government should have lied to the American people, and to make us question whether or not the citizens of the U.S. would continue to be as naive as the people of the 1950’s.

In his work, military historian Paul Walker examines recently declassified government documents regarding the projected number of losses expected in an invasion of Japan. He uses these numbers, as well as scenarios from other battles with Japanese forces to argue that the Atomic bomb was necessary to end the war in the pacific. Walker also addresses the usual arguments for and against the bomb, but does so only after establishing the necessity of the use of the bomb from a strictly statistical perspective.

Through these vivid images Bradbury gives an excellent example of the devastating God-like powers of nuclear weapons. Hopefully, this story will never become a reality, but even though the U.S. is cutting back on its nuclear weapons, several other nations continue stockpiling weapons in the arms race. If this continues, anything is possible.

As a person, sometimes, is hard to make decision that can change history, it is even harder for the president of the United States. When you are the president and there’s a war occurring you must understand that every decision you make impacts the country in every way. When another country attempts an attack on your country, as a president you need to make the best decision to overcome the attack and to protect every citizen of the country. These are the decisions that President Franklin D Roosevelt had to make it, however, when he passed away, Harry Truman had control power of the country and knew that he had to avenge Pearl Harbor. Before Truman can avenge Pearl Harbor, Albert Einstein endorsed a letter to President Roosevelt alerting him that there was an “extremely powerful bombs of a new type” and that the U.S. should begin a similar research. Eventually, this became the Manhattan Project, discovering nuclear fission as a weapon. In this essay we are going to speak about the decision that Truman made to drop the bomb, some arguments, and the interpretation.

To show satire in Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, director Stanley Kubrick uses parody, exaggeration, and incongruity. One effective method Kubrick uses is parody. In the movie, Kubrick plays on actors and typical stereotypes. Major Kong, as played by Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. or Slim Pickens, is a play on the American Cowboy. When Major Kong goes down to the bombs to open the doors he gets dropped with the bomb.

One film during the 1960’s that had a great impact on American culture, was Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This film draws attentions to the cultural events in 1960 such as the Cold War and the nuclear threat. Kubrick decided to turn this awful disaster that happened back then into a comedy that a lot of those enjoyed watching.

The seekers of great power are not noted for their rationality. Nor is the vast destructive potential in the present and prospective atomic stockpiles any more of an assured war preventative than was the lesser power of conven-tional weapons prior to World War II. Some major elements of the old plan of atomic energy control now appear to be obsolete. ( ICNW Page 25)

After World War II, a new enemy was in the horizon: technology. In the 1940’s, the United States was the leader of the “Free World” paving a path and setting an example for the rest of the world to follow (Maland 191). Americans believed the misconception that “American society was sound, and that communism was a clear danger to the survival of the United States and its allies” (Maland 191). The U.S. maintained a policy of containment by fighting communism wherever it may be, and in a show of might in 1952, they detonated the first hydrogen bomb (Maland 192). Only a short year later, the mighty Soviet Union announced that they too had the Atom bomb (Maland 192). And, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, the United States became alarmed that they were falling behind in science and technology. Because the Soviets had the same capability to annihilate the world with the bomb as the United States, tensions between the two countries increase daily. But, this new war tactic brought into question man’s ability to make decisions of nuclear proportions with

Good Morning America today February 18, 2035 this morning there was a nuclear war created by an Artificial intelligence machine, called the B.I.M it caused the world its doom. All Life has died except for one family and the new world order which makes them fight to the death and only 2 survivors may remain. So, far the people / machines who remain are the B.I.M, the Executioners, and the one remaining family. At this moment the nuclear war has happened all over the USA and all other major nuclear test sites. Now, you are probably wondering how all this happened, well the B.I.M created A.I machines that our CSI’s are currently running tests but so far we know that the A.I machines were smarter than the executioners. The executioners then created

“Dr.Strangelove” is an 1964 film based on the argument of rational; deterrence theory by Kenneth Waltz. Many of the events that occurred during the film also complimented many of the critiques of rational deterrence theory later made by Scott Sagan. Nuclear weapons have been an important issue for debate for years. The spotlight of nuclear weapons was an important factor during the cold war nevertheless the question of nuclear weapons remains afterwards. The question of both the spread and contraction of nuclear weapons remains a strong issue because of the opposing theories that argue against the question of the spread, contraction furthermore the total dissolution of nuclear weapons.

The U.S. must intervene in South Sudan, as it is an enduring interest within our National Security Strategy to maintain “An international order advanced by U.S. leadership that promotes peace, security, and opportunity.” General Rodriguez, commander of AFRICOM, should employ both diplomatic and economic instruments of power. By doing so, the U.S. risks a potentially long-term engagement in East Africa.

“Give War a Chance” is an article written by the American economist, historian and military strategist Edward Nicolae Luttwak in 1999, in the American magazine Foreign Affairs. It make an easily understandable “buzz”, since its main assumption is that most kind of peacekeeping or humanitarian operations are, in an objective point of view, a bad thing for the peace, and that it tends, paradoxically, to slower its establishment. We will analyze here the main hypothesis that Luttwak is developing among the article, the first one being the destruction of the legitimacy usually accorded to peacekeeping operations, led by the UN or by other military organizations, and the second one being the obstacle to a durable peace establishment, created