Dr. Strangelove (1964) - War Room Scene

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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[TechnicolorSpectrum]

"He'll see the big board!"

[Gio Tsintsabadze]

10 to 20 million kills, TOPS ! :-)))))))))))

[theygunaHATEME]

Well as the movie plays out they should have listened to the general.

[lazurm]

Because that policy was implemented after WW2 and in the context of the world having two nuclear armed superpowers. It was designed to reduce the tension created by that situation, the kind of tension that could trigger a nuclear exchange.

[eloyhbermudez]

.... if i may!?

[imanor343]

I love how he's got that smirk on his face after 5

[chuckchutneyisgay]

fiiive...

[Joseph Buckmaster]

(y)



[MrRucknroll]

lets be honest it saved more lifes then it took, for both sides, plus it stoped russia from taking over japan... which would just make another communist country that would threaten us

[Andrew Drazdik Jr]

"Science and the future of mankind", When one speaks about the humanistic dimension of science, thought is directed for the most part to the ethical responsibility of scientific research because of its consequences for man. Truth cannot be subject to negotiation, public address by Pope John Paul II. L'Osservatore Romano 29 November 2000, page 5. But, the beleif with how our cognitive understanding values science has ethical standards as well in our logical fostering of that as cognitive science.

[tdunphy13]

How can we have a policy of never being the first to use Nuclear Weapons. We already used them in WW2.