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Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is producer/director Stanley Kubrick's brilliant, satirical, provocative black comedy/fantasy vis-à-vis doomsday and Cold War politics that features an inadvertent, pre-emptive nuclear strike. The first commercially successful political satire about nuclear war, has been compared to another similar suspense film released at the same time - the much-more-serious and melodramatic Fail-Safe (1964). However, this was a cynically objective, Monty Pythonish, sarcastically serious(the film was actually produced in England), biting comeback to the paranoid fears of the 1950s & 60’s. Dr Strangelove boasts a wonderful cast each one a perfect fit for his role or roles I should say. (page provides a character chart ). The two theoretical critical approaches that will be used to review this film are the realist and feminist approaches appearing in the film. For the sake of the reader, the film will be reviewed chronologically using both realist and feminist themes which reoccur throughout the film. Before we begin to review the film we ll go over some basic realist assumptions, the first one is the belief that international relations are necessarily conflictual a