“Gentlemen, there is no fighting here! This is the War Room!” Quoted especially from the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, this black and white satirical film produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick in 1964, is an excellent example of Kenneth Waltz's realist theories regarding to international theory. The realism that will be at the center of this article is that of Kenneth Waltz. Kenneth Waltz presents his theory of realism, within an international system, offering his central myth that "anarchy is the permissive cause of war." Kenneth Waltz's central myth helps answer the question of why war happens in the first place. During the Cold War there was a strong sense of insecurity between Russia and the United States due to the presence of nuclear weapons. The film Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb exploited the Cold War tension between the two countries to tell the story of a general who went mad and decided to unleash his fleet of nuclear bombers on Russian military bases . the film tells the story of a deranged United States Air Force general who orders a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, launches a planned nuclear strike against the Soviet Union via his nuclear-armed B-52 fighter planes, which were held at their security points, to move into Soviet airspace, based on a twisted paranoia that the Communist Party was contaminating “our precious bodily fluids.” The film follows the course of events preceding the attack ordered by General Jack D. Ripper. In Kenneth Waltz's book entitled Man, the State and War, Kenneth Waltz attempted to show how realist pr...... middle of paper ......re the interactions between superpowers. Through Kenneth Waltz's theory of IR realism, it becomes easier to understand the dynamics and motivations behind the characters' actions. Works Cited by Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.Dir. Stanley Kubrick. prod. Stanley Kubrick, Victor Lyndon and Ken Adam. By Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, Gilbert Taylor, Anthony Harvey and Laurie Johnson. Perf. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and James Earl Jones. BLC, 1963. DVD. Waltz, Kenneth Neal. Man, the state and war: a theoretical analysis. Columbia UP; OxfordUP, 1959. Print.Waltz, Kenneth Neal. Theory of international politics. Boston, MA:McGraw-Hill, 1979. Print.Weber, Cynthia. International relations theory: a critical introduction. London: Routledge, 2010. Print.