The film was nominated for four Oscars and has a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which says that there is a critical consensus that "Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant Cold War satire remains as funny and razor-sharp today as it was in 1964."http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dr_strangelove/

As those in Washington learn what is happening, Air Force General Buck Turgidson argues that President Merkin Muffley's best course in the circumstances is to launch a full-scale attack on the Soviets before they can retaliate. Muffley, however, calls Soviet Premier Dmitri Kissoff in an effort to prevent all out war.

Kissoff reveals that the Soviets have recently created a Doomsday Device which will automatically respond to any nuclear strike and destroy all life on Earth. Frantic efforts to stop the B52 attack follow

"Perhaps Kubrick's most perfectly realised film, simply because his cynical vision of the progress of technology and human stupidity is wedded with comedy."—Time Out Film Guidehttp://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/65590/dr_strangelove-or_how_i_learned_to_stop_worrying_and_love_the_bomb.html