Dear Friends!
On the occasion of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Day which falls on 6th and 9th August, Peace-Mumbai organizes 'Film Show' Dr. Strangelove' with the cooperation of respective Colleges. It deals with nuclear deterrent psychological warfare and doctrine of mutual assured destruction during cold war between the two antagonistic power blocks. The film show will be held on 7th Aug, 08 at Vivek College of Commerce, Goregaon (W), at 10. A.M, Sophia College, on 8th Aug, 08 at 11. A.M and on 9th Aug, 08 at TISS, Deonar at 11.A.M. We request you all to participate in the film show and discussion thereafter.
Thanks
Varsha, Jatin, Bhagwan and Asad
Mumbai
Dr. Strangelove, released on 29th Jan, 1964 is a black comedy film Directed & Produced by Stanley Kubrick which is based on Peter George's Cold War thriller novel 'Red Alert'. Dr. Strangelove satirizes the Cold War and the doctrine of mutual assured destruction. It was nominated 4 Oscars, and another 10 wins and 4 nominations. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film 'culturally significant' and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. Its running time is 94 Minutes.
The story concerns a mentally unstable US Air Force General Jack D. Ripper who orders a first nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and follows the President of the US, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) Officer as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse but Ripper refuses to disclose the three letter code necessary for recalling the bombers. He tells the personnel of Burpelson Air Force Base that the US and the USSR have entered into a 'shooting war'.. Although a nuclear attack should require Presidential authority to be initiated, Ripper uses 'Plan R' an emergency war plan enabling a senior officer to launch a retaliation strike against the Soviets if the normal chain of command is broken due to sneak attack.
In the War Room at the Pentagon, Air Force General Buck Turgidson tried to convince President Merkin Muffley to take advantage of the situation to eliminate the Soviets as a threat by launching a full scale attack. Turgidson believes that the United States would destroy 90% of their missiles before they could retaliate, resulting in a victory for the U.S. with acceptable casualties of 'no more than 10 to 20 million killed. In the meantime over the phone Soviet Premier, who is having a drunken party, reveals to the Soviet Ambassador that their country has installed an active Doomsday device which will set itself off, can not be deactivated and will automatically destroy all life on Earth if nuclear weapons were to hit the Soviet Union.
At that time Dr. Strangelove, a former Nazi and Strategy Expert recommended to the President that a group of about 200, 000 people be relocated into a deep mien shaft, where the nuclear fallout can not reach them so that U.S. could be repopulated afterwards. In the unfolding drama the radio and fuel of B-52 got damaged by the anti-aircraft Missile. It leads to the jams of bay doors of B-52 and Aircraft Commander Forces open and releasing one of the nuclear bombs, the commander sitting on it whooping and hollering as he plummet to the ground.
In the concluding scenes, a visibly excited Strangelove bolts out of his wheelchair, shouting 'Mein Fuhrer' I can walk Seconds later the film ends with a barrage of nuclear explosions accompanied by Vera Lynn's famous World War II song 'we will meet'.
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