Paper by Claire Thompson. The intensity of the political shortcomings throughout the Cold War provided great inspiration for satirists, as demonstrated the film Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964) which parodies ineptitude and technology. Although these themes are addressed throughout the film, they are particularly tangible in the film’s climatic scene of Major T.J. “King Kong” (Slim … Continue reading Major Kong: or, How Incompetence and Technology Could Destroy the World