Dr. Strangelove Mocked The Cold War
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb satirizes the Cold War. It centers on the nuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, a very real fear during that time period. The paranoid Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper accidentally orders a nuclear strike against the enemy while politicians and diplomats try to halt the attack to prevent an apocalypse. One of their more outrageous tactics is taking the advice of former Nazi and nuclear expert Dr. Strangelove. The movie pokes fun at the theory of mutually assured destruction (MAD), which should prevent nuclear war because it would cause a cataclysmic disaster regardless of who wins.
