Dr. Strangelove - end of the war, and i feel fine

Title: Dr. Strangelove - end of the war, and i feel fine
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Dr. Strangelove - end of the war, and i feel fine

Elspeth Wilson Politics & Film Final Paper December 15, 2000 It's the End of the World...and I Feel Fine! (The role of intellectuals in the creation and justification of nuclear weapons.) In Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Sidney Lumet and Stanley Kubrick question the relationship between technology and humanity by emphasizing mankind's tendency to create machines that cannot be adequately controlled. By blatantly revealing the …showed first 75 words of 3139 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 3139 total…give up a portion of their humanity, becoming increasingly more like the devices they create and defend. The mutual catastrophes that occur in Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove show the inevitability of human weakness and scientific fallibility. Through the development of Professor Groeteschele and Dr. Strangelove, both Lumet and Kubrick illustrate the catastrophic possibilities of relying solely on science and mathematics to resolve international conflicts. Ultimately, modern, high stake warfare requires a more humanistic, ethi

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