He serves as president muffley s scientific adviser in the war room.
Dr strangelove war room scene analysis.
Strangelove immediately begins advising a network of mine shafts for the survival of a small population.
Can be repopulated afterwards.
Buck turgidson and former nazi scientist dr.
Strangelove is about as sexy as an episode of mr.
Strangelove on ways to stop the bombers from dropping their payload but nothing can be done without the recall code and ripper s the only one who knows it.
There aren t any steamy sex scenes no gratuitous shower scenes and the closest thing to a side boob is miss scott s brief bikini scene.
He drills his advisors including gen.
In 1964 with the cuban missile crisis fresh in viewers minds the cold war at its frostiest and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening stanley k.
Strangelove recommends to the president that a select group of about 200 000 or more people be relocated into a deep mine shaft where the nuclear fallout cannot reach them so that the u s.
On the surface dr.
Strangelove is totally pg.
The rest of the people in the war room get on board with the plan quickly abandoning any attempt to prevent the unfolding nuclear situation.
Compared to what we see on network tv these days dr.
In the war room dr.
Strangelove come up with ways to stop the bombers from delivering their payload.
Strangelove is an ex nazi scientist suggesting operation paperclip the us effort to recruit top german technical talent at the end of world war ii.
He demands that his advisors including general buck turgidson and the eccentric former nazi scientist dr.
This was so that the actors sitting around it would feel like they were sitting at a poker table playing a game of poker that would decide the fate of the world.
He is wearing fine clothes and a long coat and demands fresh fish fresh poached eggs and havana cigars.
In the white house war room president merkin muffley doesn t take this news too well.
But think symbolism shmoopers.
Back in the war room dr.