Believing that Commie-instigated water fluoridation has made him impotent, General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) launches a big SAC attack against the Soviet Union. Pretty soon President Muffley (Peter Sellers) is sitting around the War Table with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a gaggle of gimcrack generals led by "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott), fielding doomsday scenarios. Desperate, the prez turns to ex-Nazi physicist Dr. Strangelove (Sellers, again) who calculates that the gene pool can survive such a theoretical annihilation. Cold War camp, Dr. Strangelove's look, tightly designed militarized sets illuminated with expressive pools of light, is here captured in strong digital contrast.