Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove examines how well Cold War nuclear crisis films stack up against historical reality, or at least as much of that reality we can reconstruct with confidence.
Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove examines how well Cold War nuclear crisis films stack up against historical reality, or at least as much of that reality we can reconstruct with confidence.
Sean M. Maloney is a professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada and served as the Canadian Army’s historian for the war in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2014. He is the author of several books, including Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada’s Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War (Potomac Books, 2007) and Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films (Potomac Books, 2020).
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Book! Movie! The Literary Genesis of the Cold War Nuclear Crisis Film 2. Purity of Essence I: The Nuclear Leader and the Psychological Dimension in Fact and Fiction 3. Purity of Essence II: The Men and the Mission 4. Purity of Essence III: The LeMay-Power Deterrent Campaign and Dr. Strangelove 5. Peace Is Our Profession: Gen. Thomas Power and Nuclear Crisis Behavior 6. Theater of War: Fighting in the War Room 7. Plan R: Positive Control, Airborne Alert, and the Nuclear Crisis Films 8. Strategic Underground Command: The ICBM Force in Film and History 9. Dr. Strangelove Goes to Sea: Cold War Nuclear Naval Operations on Film Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Book! Movie! The Literary Genesis of the Cold War Nuclear Crisis Film 2. Purity of Essence I: The Nuclear Leader and the Psychological Dimension in Fact and Fiction 3. Purity of Essence II: The Men and the Mission 4. Purity of Essence III: The LeMay-Power Deterrent Campaign and Dr. Strangelove 5. Peace Is Our Profession: Gen. Thomas Power and Nuclear Crisis Behavior 6. Theater of War: Fighting in the War Room 7. Plan R: Positive Control, Airborne Alert, and the Nuclear Crisis Films 8. Strategic Underground Command: The ICBM Force in Film and History 9. Dr. Strangelove Goes to Sea: Cold War Nuclear Naval Operations on Film Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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