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Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove - The Secret History of Nuclear War Films (Hardcover)
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Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove - The Secret History of Nuclear War Films (Hardcover)
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The 1964 comedy film Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb has achieved cult and now iconic status
in popular culture. It is also the flagship of an entire genre of
Cold War nuclear crisis films, which is employed in numerous
academic disciplines to depict what many view as the prime
absurdity of the Cold War: nuclear deterrence and its possible
failure. The films of the Cold War nuclear crisis genre are
regularly used by educators to illustrate nuclear warfare theories
of the time. However, the further we get away from those dangerous
years, the more art takes over from life/history/reality. There
were (and remain) layers of absurdity in places like the RAND
Corporation and in other "think tanks." However, those who also
served should get their due. And Dr. Strangelove does not give it
to them. Dr. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, The Bedford Incident, and
others are about the internal and external failures of the
deterrent system. That system did not fail in real life. Why is
that? How is that? Can we use Dr. Strangelove and related films as
vehicles to help us understand the answers to those questions? What
was really going on in that secretive world? Answering those
questions was impossible in the 1970s. Years after the end of the
Cold War, we have much better insight. And now we can know.
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