As You Know: "As you know, the Premier loves surprises.".In Real Life, he would be unlikely to hit anything at medium-to-long range, and would probably burn his hand off in the process. 30 caliber machine gun from the hip while holding it by the barrel.
Artistic License Gun Safety: General Ripper, who really ought to know better, fires his Browning M1919.The fact that a joke was made about the President being "struck down in his prime" by one of the pies didn't help its cause since the JFK assassination had just taken place. The Artifact: A pastry table seen in one scene refers to the original ending, a colossal pie fight, which was deleted from the film's final cut for being too farcical.Armed Farces: The militaries of the world (specifically that of the US and Russia, but it's meant to target militaries and politicians in general) are satirized throughout the movie.Apocalyptic Montage: The film ends with a montage of nuclear explosions, famously set to Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again.".Apocalypse Wow: The Doomsday Device, while "We'll Meet Again" plays.When the bombs detonate, they'll create a radioactive cloud, that would circle the earth for ninety-three years!"
Apocalypse How: "Obviously, you've never heard of Cobalt-Thorium G.Not that it does the Soviets any good in the long run. Appeal to Force: The point of the Doomsday Machine.It turns out that salting a bomb with cobalt is a handy method for making human extinction more likely.It revolved around biological warfare rather than nuclear. The US military actually used " Operation Drop Kick " as a name.USAF pilot survival kits really did contain such items as condoms and nylons.Strategic Air Command's motto really was "Peace Is Our Profession.".One wonders if they drew inspiration from the movie. The Soviets developed a real-life "Doomsday Device" called the Dead Hand, albeit not until the '70s and '80s.Strangelove was based on the novel Red Alert. "King" Kong rides the nuke down to its destination below, thereby causing the Soviets' doomsday device to detonate and end the world. Group Captain Mandrake to be "some kind of deviated prevert" who killed the commanding general for "finding out about his preversion and organizing a mutiny of preverts" - most likely on the evidence of his odd accent and uniform. "Bat" Guano, heading an Army division that fought its way into an Air Force base, takes British military attaché. 555: Burpleson 3-9180 is the number of the booth phone from which Group Captain Mandrake is calling the President to try and stop the bombers from attacking Russia.Ripper's aide, British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake ( Peter Sellers), tries to talk sense into him but shortly realizes his boss has gone right out of his pointy little mind, believing that only he stands in the way of a Communist plot to contaminate Americans' "precious bodily fluids" via fluoridated water. He puts his entire military base in lockdown with all communications cut, ordering all radios confiscated (so that Communist infiltrators can't receive outside commands) and all troops to fire on anyone who tries to enter the base, even if they appear to be fellow Americans (because they will surely be Communists in disguise). Ripper ( Sterling Hayden) goes a little funny in the head and does a silly thing he orders the nuclear bombers under his command to carry out a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. One day during the Cold War, General Jack D. (The same plot, played straight, is used in Fail Safe.) The plot is largely taken from the 1958 novel Red Alert by Peter George, who contributed to the film's screenplay.
Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 Black Comedy film by Stanley Kubrick.