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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (known simply and more commonly as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 political satire black comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is loosely based on the thriller novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, who wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry ...
The CRM 114 on the B-52 in Dr. Strangelove. The CRM 114 Discriminator is a fictional piece of radio equipment in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove (1964), the destruction of which prevents the crew of a B-52 from receiving the recall code that would stop them from dropping their hydrogen bomb payloads onto Soviet territory.
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965. [1] Dick wrote the novel in 1963 with working titles In Earth's Diurnal Course and A Terran Odyssey.
Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of nuclear black comedy, 'Dr. Strangelove,' premiered 60 years ago Monday. It feels as fresh and horrifying today as it did then.
Released 60 years ago this week, Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, “Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” still resonates today, writes Noah Berlatsky. Although ...
0-07-008927-2 Fail-Safe is a bestselling American novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler . Expanded from Wheeler's short story "Abraham '59" (originally published in the Winter 1959 issue of Dissent under the pen name F. B. Aiken), it was initially serialized in three installments in the Saturday Evening Post on October 13, 20, and 27, 1962 ...
Lines from the character General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove directly mimic passages from this book, [1] such as Turgidson's phrase "two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless, distinguishable post-war environments" which reflects a chart from this book labeled "Tragic but Distinguishable Postwar States ...
Red Alert was more solemn than its film version and it did not include the character Dr. Strangelove, though the main plot and technical elements were quite similar. A novelisation of the actual film, rather than a reprint of the original novel, was published by George, based on an early draft in which aliens try to understand what happened ...