Dr. Strangelove represents a satirical black comedy. Stanley Kubrick directs a fantastically humorous film about military and political relationships. Kubrick portrays the “vanity of human wishes,” human frailty, fallibility, error, and hubris. The film suits the sensibility of the early 1960s.  One main theme is the satirizing of the Cold War through its focus on MAD.  It mocks the attitudes of American and Russian leaders. Certain leaders pushed for war but did not understand the implications regardless of who “won.” Winning would only end in mutual destruction. The detached and exuberant characteristics of the film effectively portray communication of military and political leaders during the Cold War.