Revisiting Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

The return of Cold War emotions and frames make this movie more salient.

The BAKER test of Operation Crossroads, July 25, 1946. Seconds after the water column rose, and formed a condensation cloud, it fell back, unleashing a billowing base surge forming a 500 foot high wall. Courtesy of Shutterstock and the Everett Collection.