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

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, motion-picture comedy about Cold War paranoia and the nuclear arms race, based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Released in 1964, this British film stars Peter Sellers in three different roles, including Dr. Strangelove, an allegedly reformed Nazi working for the United States whose German-built prosthetic arm has a mind of its own and salutes Nazi-style against his will. A maniacal United States general orders a squadron of B-52 bombers to attack the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) unprovoked, setting off a chain of events involving a Russian doomsday machine. The ineffective U.S. president (also played by Sellers) politely apologizes to the Soviets and tries to help them shoot down the incoming planes, while crazed generals run amok in the War Room.

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  • General Jack D. Ripper: “I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!”

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