Strangelovian

English Alternative forms en Strangelovean Etymology From en Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Strangelove ian, referring to the title character in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a black comedy satirizing the nuclear weapons scare. Adjective Of or pertaining to nuclear apocalypse, especially through incompetence or shortsightedness. en 1987 INF Agreement in Principle Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 43 9 5 Paul C. Warnke, President Jimmy Carter's first director of ACDA, came to Reagan's defense by noting the Strangelovian affection of some armchair strategists for nuclear weaponry. 1994, Mother Jones Magazine (volume 19, number 1, Jan-Feb 1994) How many hundreds of millions of dollars have been sunk into Strangelovian bunkers, how many tens of thousands of hours invested in preparing for that apocalyptic vision? Only a handful of senior doomsday officials may ever know... en 2008 Roger Ebert Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews — 1967-2007 833 Just today, I read a Strangelovian story in the paper revealing that some of Russia's nuclear missiles, still aimed at the United States, have gone unattended because their guards were denied their bonus rations of four pounds of sausage a month. en eponyms terms derived from fiction en Nuclear warfare