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Doctor Strangelove
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Discover the Doctor Strangelove Poster, Stanley Kubrick's cult classic about the Cold War and human madness. Immerse yourself in the absurdity of nuclear power with dark humor and a stunning performance from Peter Sellers.
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Description of this Doctor Strangelove Poster
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, known simply and more commonly as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 satirical black comedy film that satirizes the fears of the Cold War of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The film was directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick and stars Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden and Slim Pickens. The film is loosely based on Peter George's thriller novel Red Alert (1958).
The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. It separately follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a Royal Air Force exchange officer as they attempt to stop the crew of a B-52 ( who were following the general's orders) of the bombing of the Soviet Union and the outbreak of nuclear war.
The film is often considered one of the best comedies ever made, as well as one of the greatest films of all time. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it twenty-sixth in its list of best American films (in the 2007 edition, the film ranked thirty-ninth), and in 2000 it was ranked number three on his funniest list. American films. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included Dr. Strangelove as one of the first 25 films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper is the commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, home to the 843rd Bomb Wing, flying B-52 bombers armed with hydrogen bombs. Planes are on airborne alert two hours from their targets inside the USSR
General Ripper orders his executive officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (a Royal Air Force exchange officer), to put the base on alert, confiscate all base personnel's private radios, and broadcast “Wing Attack Plan R” to patrolling bombers. All aircraft begin attack flights on the USSR and set their radios to allow communications only through their CRM 114 discriminators, which are designed to only accept communications preceded by a three-letter secret code known only to the General Ripper. Performing on a radio that had been missed earlier and hearing a normal civilian broadcast, Mandrake realizes that no attack orders have been issued by the Pentagon and tries to arrest Ripper, who locks them both up in his office. Ripper tells Mandrake that he believes the Soviets fluoridated the American water supply to pollute Americans' "precious bodily fluids." Mandrake realizes that Ripper has gone crazy.
In the Pentagon war room, General Buck Turgidson briefs President Merkin Muffley and other officers on how "Plan R" allows a superior officer to launch a retaliatory nuclear attack against the Soviets if all superiors were killed in a first strike on the United States. States. It would take two days to try each combination of CRM codes to issue a recall order, so Muffley orders the U.S. Army to storm the base and arrest General Ripper. Turgidson, noting the slim chances of recalling the planes in time, then proposed that Muffley not only let the attack continue but send reinforcements. According to one unofficial study, this would result in "modest and acceptable civilian casualties" from the "poorly damaged and uncoordinated" Soviet army that would remain after the initial attack. Muffley refuses this plan and instead brings Soviet Ambassador Alexei de Sadeski into the war room to telephone Soviet Premier Dimitri Kissov on the "hotline". Muffley warns the Prime Minister of the impending attack and offers to reveal the bombers' targets, flight plans, and defensive systems so that the Soviets can protect themselves.
After a heated discussion with the Prime Minister, the Ambassador informs President Muffley that the Soviet Union has created a doomsday machine as a nuclear deterrent; it consists of numerous buried bombs lined with "cobalt–thorium G", which should detonate automatically in the event of a nuclear attack against the country. The resulting nuclear fallout would then engulf the planet for 93 years, rendering the Earth's surface uninhabitable. The device cannot be deactivated, as it is programmed to explode if such an attempt is made. The president's wheelchair-bound science advisor, former German Nazi Dr. Strangelove, points out that such a doomsday machine would only be an effective deterrent if everyone knew about it; Alexei responds that the Soviet Prime Minister had planned to reveal his existence to the world the following week at the party congress.
US Army troops arrive at Burbelson and fight with the garrison. After General Ripper commits suicide, Mandrake identifies Ripper's CRM code from his office blotter and relays it to the Pentagon. Using the code, Strategic Air Command successfully recalls all but one of the bombers, commanded by Major TJ "King" Kong, due to radio equipment damaged in a missile attack. The Soviets attempt to find it, but Kong has the bomber attack a closer target due to dwindling fuel. As the plane approaches the new target, a Soviet ICBM site, the crew is unable to open the damaged bomb bay doors. Kong enters the bay and repairs the electrical wiring while riding an H-bomb, after which the doors open and the bomb is released. Kong hoots happily and waves his cowboy hat as he rides the bomb which falls to his death.
Back in the war room, Dr. Strangelove recommends that the President assemble several hundred thousand people to live in deep underground mines where radiation will not penetrate. He suggests a 10:1 female to male ratio for a breeding program to repopulate Earth once the radiation subsides, a plan that garners enthusiastic support from the all-male command staff. Worried that the Soviets will do the same, Turgidson warns of a "mineshaft gap" while Alexei secretly photographs the war room. Dr. Strangelove states that he has a plan, then suddenly stands up from his wheelchair and exclaims, "Mein Führer, I can walk!" The film cuts to a montage of nuclear explosions, accompanied by the performance by Vera Lynn from the song "We'll Meet Again".
