Dr. Strangelove, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, was quite an interesting movie. The movie follows a series of irrational and rational events that eventually lead up to the destruction of the entire world as we know it. The film beings with General Jack Ripper ordering his soldiers to go forward with Plan R. According to the film, the general had total say in when to unleash Plan R when they see it necessary without the approval of the president, but as the audience finds out later on, the reason for which General Ripper gave the okay was illogical. He felt as if the Russians were polluting “precious bodily fluids” through fluoridation in US water. The idea of giving a general the green light to attack an enemy when no other person of higher power is available seems like a logical idea because one can assume the general knows best and will have the country’s best interest at heart as well. However, once the general explains the reasons and threats he feels imposed by Communism, it makes the audience and his executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, question his sanity. Personally, I felt like Mandrake was the only person that made sense in the entire film. Plan R was a dangerous and risky plan to go along with and make sure this was really happening, Lionel decided to double check with headquarters and after realizing no such order was handed down from higher authorities, he decided to confront Ripper, which of course leads to him being locked inside the room with him. Throughout the film, Mandrake tries to reason with Ripper and to tries to get the three letter coded needed to bring back the plane. Another moment he uses logic and reason was when he told Colonel Bat Guano that if the president wanted to talk to Ripper, and Ripper is dead, wouldn’t it make the slightest sense to talk whoever is one step beneath him, which is him?