Film/TV

Dr. Strangelove

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Film Review

Hotline Suspense

The entire plot of Stanley Kubrick's Cold War satire turns around getting people on the phone.

by Devin Short via Contingent on March 19, 2022
Comment

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

by Eric Schlosser via The New Yorker on January 17, 2014

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