{"id":45718,"date":"2024-01-30T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=45718"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:23:27","slug":"happy-birthday-dr-strangelove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/30\/happy-birthday-dr-strangelove\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Dr. Strangelove"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell\u2019s Substack Between Rock and a Hard Place<\/a>.
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This week we celebrate the 60th birthday of \u201cDr. Strangelove<\/em>,\u201d which debuted on January 29, 1964.\u00a0 The first preview screening had been set for Nov. 22, 1963, but…. well, you know.\u00a0 The premiere was then pushed back a bit.\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately, Kubrick’s president, the balding Milton Muffley (one of three roles for Peter Sellers), was more Ike than JFK.<\/p>\n

As a callow youth, I saw \u201cStrangelove\u201d in the theater and it instantly became my all-time favorite movie, and retained that position for many years. I would also say that it probably had the most influence on my career, since I went on to serve as editor of Nuclear Times<\/em>, spent a month in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, wrote about The Bomb for dozens of leading publications and then in three books, and most recently wrote and directed a PBS film titled \u201cAtomic Cover-up.\u201d So that\u2019s\u2026a lot.<\/p>\n

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Also, in a bit of homage, a photo taken by Kubrick turns up in my latest PBS film, \u201cMemorial Day Massacre.\u201d<\/p>\n

So here are a few \u201cStrangelove\u201d-related highlights, including a couple of parodies.<\/p>\n

Here’s the original trailer which was killed and not seen for decades.<\/p>\n