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Selected scholarship and essays from The Toro Historical Review archive.

10-05

Dr. Strangelove or: A Satirical Commentary on the Cold War

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was released January 29, 1964. It was a turbulent time in American history. John F. Kennedy’s assassination had occurred only two months prior, [1] and just a year before…