Dr. Strangelove

• Dr Strangelove

From the character Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

• (US) IPA^(key): /dɑktər streɪndʒlʌv/, [ˈdɑk̚tɚ ˈʃt͡ʃɹeɪ̯nd͡ʒɫʌv]

Dr. Strangelove (plural Dr. Strangeloves)

1. Someone who is likely to launch a nuclear attack or otherwise destroy the world.
   • 2008, William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary, →ISBN, page 654:

     When it was important in 1969 for Henry Kissinger to gain a reputation as a “secret swinger” to create a Dr. Strangelove reputation and provide cover for secret trips, he would appeal to White House wags and their friends (Richard Moore, television producer Paul Keyes, and this writer) for lines making that point.

   • 2010, Jeff Goodell, How to Cool the Planet, →ISBN:

     Just as the central question of the nuclear age was how to keep a Dr. Strangelove from pushing the button, the central question of the geoengineering age will be how to prevent a Dr. Strangelove from hacking the climate.

   • 2015, Katrine Marcal, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, →ISBN, page 62:

     His game theory became the foundation for modern finance. Dr Strangelove went to work on Wall Street.

   • 2012, Dr J Richardson, War, Science and Terrorism: From Laboratory to Open Conflict, →ISBN:

     In both the world of new science and that of quick-fix military technology we need, more than ever, to be on perpetual guard against the Dr Strangeloves of the future.

   • 2014, Jerry Kroth, Implosion: Delusion, denial, and the prospect of collapse, →ISBN, page 240:

     The Darth Vaders, Dr. Strangeloves and many people in positions of power have advocated the use of nuclear weapons to resolve conflicts.

   • 2014, Alex Constantine, Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America, →ISBN, page 255:

     But CIA observers everywhere choked when CNN announced that a psychological trauma team, mustered by the American Psychological Association, would converge in Oklahoma City to treat survivors of the explosion and the victims' families—led by none other than Dr. Louis Jolyon West of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, the breeding ground of some of the most necrotizing Dr. Strangeloves in the mind control business.

• Dr. Strangelove syndrome
• Strangelovian