...U.S. GENERAL RUNS AMUCK... ...H-BOMBERS ATTACK RUSSIA... PRESIDENT AND RED PREMIER IN HOT-LINE STRUGGLE TO SAVE WORLD Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1963 political satire black comedy that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the USA. The novel, written by Peter George, is based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern, which was released as a film—directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott—in 1964.