Dr Strangelove Analysis

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After WWII, there was a political confrontation called Cold War between socialist led by the former Soviet Union and capitalist countries led by the US. Many surrogate wars between them broke out around the world, and the U.S. and the former Soviet Union had been carried out more than 50 nuclear tests to show their power even after people knew about the cruelty of atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki city. The political satire comedy Dr.Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was produced by Stanley Kubrick in 1963 and released in 1964. This movie described well about the high tension of Cold War, and a fear of nuclear weapon based on Mutual Assured Destruction. Throughout this movie, the director Stanley Kubrick …show more content…

Strangelove based on these above strained historical background was intended not only for the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, but also people who believed that nuclear power had maintain the world peace during post-war era. In a book the United States and the End of the Cold War, author, John Lewis Gaddis stated that “We somehow know that nuclear weapons have been critically "relevant" to the postwar long peace” (Gaddies 1749). However, a director, Stanley Kubrick denied this theory as a just hypothesis, thus made an end of self-destruction according to a nuclear weapon produced by human, and told an intended audience that nuclear power is not maintaining but destroying the world with flowing an image of a nuclear …show more content…

In the book titled Playing Politics with Science: Balancing Scientific Independence and Government Oversight, this author wrote that “During the Cold War, president Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan regarded investments in scientific research as important for defending the county against the threat of Soviet imperialism”(Resink, 2009). This movie warns of relying on science to solve political problems. As we know from the movie title, Dr.Strangelove, this director, Stanley Kubrick, wanted to show that people place absolute trust in science, which might cause the worst mistakes in human history. Therefore, in the movie, Doomsday Device went into operation because of the computer control system to indicate that the computer cannot be relied to solve the

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