Who Was Dr. Strangelove ?
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9.3.1999 - Stanley Kubrick died Sunday. Of all the film characters he created, perhaps none is as memorable as Doctor Strangelove.
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Many incorrectly suspect that Henry Kissinger was Kubrick’s model. While it is true that Kissinger had thick glasses and an even thicker accent, he was still a relatively obscure professor at Harvard in 1964 when the movie was released. (Kissinger didn’t became National Security Advisor until 1969.) Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that Kissinger subsequently modeled himself, consciously or subconsciously, after Strangelove.
America’s best-known nuclear strategist in 1964 was American-born Herman Kahn, a physicist, RAND Corporation think-tanker, and author of On Thermonuclear War. (Kahn’s most famous argument was that some people would probably survive a nuclear war.) In the movie, Strangelove mentions an association with the “Bland Corporation” and argues that nuclear war is survivable. Kahn himself allowed that the character was “part Henry Kissinger, part myself, with a touch of Wernher von Braun.”
Von Braun, the rocket scientist, was probably the source for Strangelove’s poorly repressed Nazism. (Here’s an audio clip of the excited Strangelove mistakenly calling the President “Mein Fuhrer!”) Von Braun developed the V-2 during World War II for Hitler, emigrated to the USA to create rockets for NASA, and became something of national hero in the space agency’s heyday of the 1960s. Mort Sahl once quipped that von Braun’s autobiography I Aimed For the Stars should have been subtitled “but Sometimes I Hit London.”
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