Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is a 1964 political satire film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film is a dark comedy that explores the political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and the potential for nuclear war. Dr. Strangelove is widely regarded as one of Kubrick's greatest films, and a masterpiece of the satire genre.