Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 black comedy film co-written by Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers, based on Peter Sellers' novel Red Alert, which satirizes the misjudgments made by America's military brass in the 'war room' that led the two countries into a major nuclear war. The starting point of the war is Soviet Russia's need to clean the sap from the American body, which, in the words of General Turgidson, has been polluted by Soviet Russia. The basis of this situation is the paranoia of communism that the US is experiencing. While the American plane is making its periodic flight over the Soviet borders, the crew of the plane receives a call called Code 'R'. This encrypted call, which represents the beginning of the war and its magnitude, sends the B-52 crew into a panic. Meanwhile, the President of the United States, Merkin Muffley, and his advisors try to prevent a major nuclear war that will cause radiation that will affect the next 93 years. It turns out that this weapon of Armageddon, created by the Soviet Union as a 'deterrent', actually poses great dangers. However, it is too late for this prevention work. The B-52 plane has already given the order. As the events unfold, Dr. Strange Love presents the catastrophic scenarios and solutions (!) of a possible nuclear war. ABD officials have no choice but to cling to the utopian ideas of Dr. Strangelove, but the effort is insufficient, the 'mass murder' will eventually take place.
I have already emphasized that the term deterrence refers to the deterrence of a superior enemy by retaliation or other means to prevent the possible consequences of nuclear war. To concretize this concept with the film, the superior state in America's perspective is 'Soviet Russia' due to its powerful weapon technologies. For deterrence to be successful, possible violence or war must have been anticipated in advance. Kubick's work emphasizes that this war was a 'belated anticipation'.The main reason for this belatedness is that the superiors are far from the mission of a leader. The leaders prioritized their ambitions and left the future of the state to the fate of nuclear bombs, which they described as 'the weapon of doomsday'.A scene from the film captures this aspect of deterrence with great irony. The fact that the General, who ordered the Russians to attack because politicians should not interfere in the war, was talking on the phone with his girlfriend during the meeting and talking about the possibility of ten women to one man in the future if war happens while the contingency plan is being made, that the Russian President was leading this war in an alcoholic state, and that the US leader Muffley communicated only by asking questions and apologizing to each other for this war in the first minutes of the phone call are some of the scenes from the film that relate to this issue. In this scene, we can see how the leaders are in control of the destiny of two great states. Towards the end of the film, Dr. Weirdo deals with the possible disasters of this Cold War on the brink of apocalypse. There is radiation that will cause great damage to the entire atmosphere and will be affected for 93 years. In Dr. Weirdo's view, there is a possibility that the American state may spend its post-war future in an underground mine. In the film, the key pattern of deterrence, the art of creating fear, is deeply staged by the officials at the emergency meeting and the crew of the B-52 as Dr. StrangeLove talks about these possibilities. At this point, the necessity of deterrence policy is emphasized with a closed irony.The main purpose of the deterrence doctrine is to save the future of the people and the state while the interests of the state are in the background. However, the fact that the Americans consider the world supremacy that will be established underground by reproducing more, even on the eve of this mass murder, is a reference to the selfishness of the deterrence policies that took place at that time. As in many scenes in this part of the film, the event is conveyed to the audience without any ceremony.
While an emergency assessment is being made on the US line, peace is our profession, and the breathlessness of the deterrence policy implemented by the two countries is summarized with a single line.'Gentlemen you can't fight in here! this the war room!'
A policy that falls victim to personal paranoia is doomed to failure. This is exemplified by Dr. Strangelove's fight with his right hand, which acts independently of him and gives the Nazi salute.
The film deals throughout with the consequences of sympathy for nuclear power, and the failure of its creators. It is obvious how the developing arms race between countries will have a large-scale impact. If this deadly weapon is not prevented, the price to be paid will be very painful for a country.
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