Some observations I've made about the film and haven't seen anyone else make: * "Strangelove" = "Strangle" + "Glove" * In many war room scenes, if you squint,

Some observations I've made about the film and haven't seen anyone else make: * "Strangelove" = "Strangle" + "Glove" * In many war room scenes, if you squint, the table looks like a mushroom cloud. The circular light above the table is the "halo" of the mushroom cloud. * When Mandrake first learns what General Ripper is up to, at one point the camera angle makes it look like Mandrake is a tiny doll of a man standing on General Ripper's desk. * The film features many nested levels of self-destruct systems interfering with each other. The Doomsday Device, the decision to help the USSR shoot down the bombers, even the bomber's own self-destruct system (which ironically blows itself up, not the plane, and in the process destroys the decoder system so the crew can't receive the recall code). For example, if the president hadn't helped the USSR attack the bombers, then said decoder wouldn't have been destroyed, and Armageddon would've been avoided. * The closing scenes feature real atomic blast footage, some with ships nearby. Some analysts incorrectly think this is a continuity error, as the Doomsday Device was landlocked. But in fact it's perfectly consistent with the last lines of dialog: even post-Doomsday Device, mankind cannot even get along to escape into the mineshafts peacefully, instead entering a full-scale nuclear conflict despite the futility of it all.