But today, you didn’t call me to talk about Fail Safe, did you? We’re talking about Dr. Strangelove. And Dr. Strangelove still gets shown on Turner Classic Movies and sometimes in movie theaters, and ...

or Covid, or fascist takeovers, rather than (or in addition to) the bomb. But Jack D. Ripper is still smoking that same cigar, and Dr. Strangelove is still smiling.

Sixty years later, the comedy still works, but the immediacy of the nightmare may be missed. Shot in Shepperton Studios outside of London from February through November 1963, Dr. Strangelove was ...

Though the film’s satirical ambitions ultimately foreground the comedy, “Dr. Strangelove” is still existentially terrifying. The ending, which depicts the world being destroyed in a nuclear war, is ...

To Americans who still felt like they were the good guys after swaggering to the rescue in the Second World War, Dr Strangelove must have felt like a brutal kick in the nuts. The portrait painted ...

Dr. Strangelove is a reminder that art—real, dangerous, uncompromising art—is still our best weapon against war. Stop the bombing, love the worry. Kubrick saw this coming. A world where war is ...