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

Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy follows a group of paranoid, war-obsessed generals who, through a “tragic accident,” manage to trigger a nuclear apocalypse. Chief of Staff “Buck” Turgidson and Strategic Air Command General Jack Ripper dispatch a squadron of bombers to attack the Soviet Union. This activates the Soviet secret weapon known as the “doomsday bomb”—a diabolical missile system intended for a retaliatory strike. To warn the world, British Captain Lionel Mandrake becomes the only person with access to General Ripper. U.S. President Muffley, in an effort to prevent disaster, tries to convince the drunken Soviet Premier that it’s all just a foolish mistake. The President’s adviser is the mad Dr. Strangelove, a former Nazi scientist…