The 1964 film Dr. Strangelove
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The 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick) came after the major nuclear scare of the 1950s and immeidataely after the confrontation between the United States and Russia over missiles in Cuba. It was produced at the height of the Cold War and the tensions of that period. The vision of nuclear power in the movies turned away from the power and ascendance nuclear power gave to the United States to a greater concern for the threat it posed to the United Stats and the world at large. The vision now was of the Apocalypse, to be brought on by a chain reaction as in the film On the Beach (1959) so that all life on earth would be wiped away in a nuclear war. In that film, the image was less of the devastation of direct bombing and more of the lingering death that would ensue from radiation and fallout after the war. The same images were given comic treatment in Dr. Strangelove (1964), with the result the same--the end of the world as we know it. Fail-Safe (1964) covered the same issues in a serious way, and if the world did not end in this film, the calculated destruction that resulted from an accident raise fears to a high level. Dr. Strangelove gains pwoer from the time in which it was made and the international tensions of that era. Mary W. Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein is a cautionary tale about the excesses of science in which a being is created and then turns on his creator. In the 1950s and into the 1960
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our arsenal for any reason except that doing so was what we had been doing since World War II and so should be continued.
The generation that brought the United States into international espionage and covert action and that established the CIA was rising to power by 1941 and included Dean Acheson, secretary of state under Truman; Robert Lovett, lawyer, and banker who served as Truman's secretary of defense and later an adviser to Kennedy; James Forrestal, secretary of the navy under Roosevelt and secretary of defense under Truman; John Foster Dulles, lawyer and secretary of state to Eisenhower; Allen Dulles, a lawyer and the longest-serving director of the CIA; and Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff to Eisenhower during World War II, ambassador to the Soviet Union, third director of the CIA, and later undersecretary of state. All these men had experienced the excitement and hopes of World War I. From their experience in the years between the two world wars, they developed three strong convictions that would be the basis for their policies once they came to power. The first was that in 1919 the U.S. had been outsmarted by the British and the French in the postwar settlement and had reacted by withdrawing to its continental b
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