2.11.5 In Class Writing
1. In Dr.Strangelove the catalyst to the entire story is that a low level Officer fakes a "Plan R" to trick his men into thinking they are retaliating when in reality they are initiating the war. Then in attempts to stop the attacks the Russians damage communications with the planes making it impossible for the U.S. recall the mission and forcing a situation in which people must deal with knowing their death is just minutes away. The movie itself is a satire and therefore is fiction in its happenings but not in its antecedent circumstance. In America there was a worry that with the Nuclear Triad putting(Smithsonian Institute) so many lower ranking people in a position in which at a critical moment they could decide whether to launch or hold nuclear missiles, that one such person might take authority into their own hands and begin a war. The movie acknowledges this link to reality by not just having all the characters accept that it's what happened but by having them tal...