In 1947, two years after the harsh conclusion of World War 2, the wretched Cold War came into play. Although the Cold War refers to the more general tension between the defensive and offensive sides at the time, it was a battle of words and actions between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The 1964 film Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb expresses the main idea of such tension through farcical terms, and shows that the United States was, and is, clearly capable of initiating World War 3 by provoking the Soviet Union. However, the film was created to highlight the political terms of the time, which, as aforementioned, includes the Cold War.
In 1964, the year Dr Strangelove made its grand debut in theaters, the United States of America was covered by alarming clouds of doubt, fear, and constant dismay. As one may know, the events leading up to the 1960s brought the likelihood of a nuclear holocaust, which instilled fear in the vast majority of the
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Kennedy began his presidential campaign, he stated that America would not be prepared in the event of a Soviet attack, thus implying that the Americans were weak, and the Soviets were far too advanced. Stanley Kubrick, the director of Dr Strangelove, indirectly strove to go beyond this idea by creating such a film. As the Cold War film unravels, the United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper orders his base to be shut down and put under heavy alert, as well as ordering the sole patrolling aircraft, commanded by Major T.J. “King” Kong, to abide by the “Wing Attack Plan R” initiative. This destroys all communication with the aircraft, and may only be preceded if a secret three-letter code is fed to the system. When General Ripper’s Group Captain Lionel Mandrake discovers that this war order was issued by Ripper himself and not the Pentagon, Mandrake attempts to stop him, and soon realizes that General Ripper is indeed