The movie Dr. Strangelove has to be one of the most intriguing films of our time. The film, which came out in 1964, was nominated for many awards, including best actor, director and film. I found the film to have a strong sense of humor behind a subject that was and still is a very serious subject in the United States. Dr. Strangelove shows how men of the post WWII era felt about nuclear war, and the after effects, and what they would do to see that our population does not die off.

The movie begins with on the Air Force Base commanded by General Jack D. Ripper. Ripper is an insane General who is about to cause the destruction of the world. Ripper instructs his Air Force Battalion to begin Plan R, which commands the pilots and crew to drop nuclear bombs on there specified targets over Russia. Once the plan is put into effect the planes are shut off from communication, and can only be reached with a three-letter code, which Gen. Ripper is the only one to hold. At the same time Gen. Ripper has sealed off his base from anybody on the outside.

It isn’t until this part that we find out that nuclear war is almost inevitable due to Gen. Ripper’s insani

Nazism beliefs where based on a master race. We can see some Darwinism in this in that belief that only the strong will survive. Dr. Strangelove communicates the idea of taking strong men and women into a mine underground. The men and women will be accompanied by some military and political powers to run the so-called underground race. There will be a ten to one ratio of men to women so that one man can impregnate ten women.

Throughout the film we see many different things that are serious subjects put into a joking matter. The humor used in the film helps to make it a less serious problem. When in all actuality this could have been a real problem. If there was one insane man with power, there could major destruction and loss of lives. I believe that Kubrick is trying to get the idea that one insane man could cause U.S., and world powers for that matter could take incredible measures to see that our population does not completely die off.

It now proposes another problem, without the plane being reached it will in fact reach its target and cause the Doom’s Day Device to go off killing the world’s population. It is at this point that the President, the Secretaries, Generals, and the Russian Ambassador must t

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