Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Kubrick's 1964 satire of nuclear command and control, quoted visually throughout the CivBench essay.
Film · 1964Sources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Studio catalogue’s director, year and nuclear-escalation synopsis.
- Sony Pictures Museum: Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick, 1964, Columbia film, and premise of a nuclear attack that cannot be recalled.
- OpenLibrary work API: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Identifies Peter Krämer’s critical study of the film, not the film itself; basis for removing the incorrect identifier.
What this check doesn’t establish
- Removed OpenLibrary OL19993126W because it identifies Peter Krämer’s book about the film.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Used for imagery rather than argument, but the choice is not arbitrary: a film about an escalation nobody quite intended, running through a system that behaved exactly as designed, sitting over an account of an agent that spent fifty turns building nuclear weapons to answer the wrong threat.
Recorded as a Work with CSL type motion_picture, which the collection could not
express until the CSL enum was adopted in full.
In the essays
- I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke.
Read the essay
People
- Stanley Kubrick
Author
Images
- Major Kong rides the bomb, Dr. Strangelove
Depicted in
- Not an exercise, Dr. Strangelove
Depicted in
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/works/dr-strangelove.md
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