Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Release Date: January 29, 1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, also known as simply as Dr. Strangelove, was released on January 29, 1964 and shows in a comedic fashion how a nuclear war would play out.
In the 1950s, the government of the United States had designated the power to use nuclear weapons to many of its major generals without the need of the President to approve it. This is where the movie begins. General Jack Ripper of the United States Air Force was paranoid about the fluoridation of the United States' water supply, as he thought that it was a communist plot to poison the American people. So, Ripper commanded a nuclear air strike against the Soviet Union from the fake Burpelson Air Force Base. Only General Ripper knows the three letter code to stop the bombers. So the President of the United States, Merkin Muffley, calls a meeting at the War Room in the Pentagon with his top advisers, one of which being General Buck Turgidson and a former Nazi scientist in a wheelchair Dr. Strangelove. President Muffley calls into the War Room the Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky who warns that if the U.S.S.R. comes under nuclear attack, then the Soviets would launch a Doomsday Device that would destroy all life on the planet. Trying to avoid catastrophe, President Muffley calls the Soviet leader Dimitri Kisov and warns him of the U.S. general that has lost his mind. Kisov claims that even if the nuclear bombs hit their targets, they cannot control the Doomsday Device and it will be set off anyway.
Eventually, the only high ranking officer left at the Burpelson Air Force Base, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, has figured out the code. He gets the code out to the bombers in time and all but one of the U.S. bombers gets the message and returns back to the base. The one bomber that didn't get the message had lost its communication system after getting hit by Soviet anti-aircraft guns which also damaged their fuel tank enough to make the plane's captain aim at a closer target.
In the 1950s, the government of the United States had designated the power to use nuclear weapons to many of its major generals without the need of the President to approve it. This is where the movie begins. General Jack Ripper of the United States Air Force was paranoid about the fluoridation of the United States' water supply, as he thought that it was a communist plot to poison the American people. So, Ripper commanded a nuclear air strike against the Soviet Union from the fake Burpelson Air Force Base. Only General Ripper knows the three letter code to stop the bombers. So the President of the United States, Merkin Muffley, calls a meeting at the War Room in the Pentagon with his top advisers, one of which being General Buck Turgidson and a former Nazi scientist in a wheelchair Dr. Strangelove. President Muffley calls into the War Room the Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky who warns that if the U.S.S.R. comes under nuclear attack, then the Soviets would launch a Doomsday Device that would destroy all life on the planet. Trying to avoid catastrophe, President Muffley calls the Soviet leader Dimitri Kisov and warns him of the U.S. general that has lost his mind. Kisov claims that even if the nuclear bombs hit their targets, they cannot control the Doomsday Device and it will be set off anyway.
Eventually, the only high ranking officer left at the Burpelson Air Force Base, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, has figured out the code. He gets the code out to the bombers in time and all but one of the U.S. bombers gets the message and returns back to the base. The one bomber that didn't get the message had lost its communication system after getting hit by Soviet anti-aircraft guns which also damaged their fuel tank enough to make the plane's captain aim at a closer target.
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