

Ripper is commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, which houses the 843rd Bomb Wing, flying B-52 bombers armed with hydrogen bombs. United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. 3.6 Effects of the Kennedy assassination on the film.Strangelove as one of the first twenty-five films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included Dr. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it twenty-sixth in its list of the best American movies (in the 2007 edition, the film ranked thirty-ninth), and in 2000, it was listed as number three on its list of the funniest American films. The film is often considered one of the best comedies ever made, as well as one of the greatest films of all time.

It separately follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) exchange officer as they attempt to prevent the crew of a B-52 plane (who were following orders from the general) from bombing the Soviets and starting a nuclear war. The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.

The film is loosely based on Peter George's thriller novel Red Alert (1958). Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Slim Pickens. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick and stars Peter Sellers, George C. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly known simply as Dr.
