By Euripides L Evriviades
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, brilliantly satirised Cold War paranoia and its catastrophic potential.
Filmed two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, it captured how fear and irrational decision-making could spiral into nuclear Armageddon. While paranoia breeds irrationality, the hallmark of Cold War decision-making was rationality – a critical factor in preventing catastrophe.
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