https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4
In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers minds, the Cold
War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and
frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what could
happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button — and played the
situation for laughs. Dr. Strangeloves jet-black satire (from a script
by director Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern) and a
host of superb comic performances (including three from Peter Sellers)
have kept the film fresh and entertaining, even as its issues have
become (slightly) less timely. Loaded with thermonuclear weapons, a U.S.
bomber piloted by Maj. T.J. King Kong (Slim Pickens) is on a routine
flight pattern near the Soviet Union when they receive orders to
commence Wing Attack Plan R, best summarized by Maj. Kong as Nuclear
combat! Toe to toe with the Russkies! On the ground at Burpleson Air
Force Base, Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) notices nothing
on the news about America being at war. Gen. Jack D. Ripper (Sterling
Hayden) calmly informs him that he gave the command to attack the Soviet
Union because it was high time someone did something about
fluoridation, which is sapping Americans bodily fluids (and apparently
has something to do with Rippers sexual dysfunction). Meanwhile,
President Merkin Muffley (Sellers again) meets with his top Pentagon
advisors, including super-hawk Gen. Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott),
who sees this as an opportunity to do something about Communism in
general and Russians in particular. However, the ante is upped
considerably when Soviet ambassador de Sadesky (Peter Bull) informs
Muffley and his staff of the latest innovation in Soviet weapons
technology: a Doomsday Machine that will destroy the entire world if the
Russians are attacked.
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