> a reminder that we are having some laughs in the service of the building of weapons of mass destruction and there’s something inherently problematic about tha

> a reminder that we are having some laughs in the service of the building of weapons of mass destruction and there’s something inherently problematic about that I don't get it. The problem is with building weapons of mass destruction in the first place, not doing it and then finding humor in the situation. Isn't it quite funny that a so-called "intelligent" species would expend so much energy, money and time to build a series of devices to annihilate itself? Surely it's at least a bit ironic? Dr Strangelove is a comedy about exactly that, and its humor works. It seems when Kubrick started to work on that project he wanted to do a "serious" movie, but the more he learned about the whole system the more he found it utterly absurd, and he came to the conclusion that the only way to talk about it was to make a satire.