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Before I saw the movie I thought the I in "How I Learned" referred to the viewer of the movie. As in watch this and you'll stop worrying and love the bomb.
But the ending doesn't support that even though the themes in the movie do. Because of the 10 women to 1 man thing. First its a slim chance that you'd be one of the people chosen for the caves so no reason for most men to love the bomb. Second, from what little I know of women they wouldn't want to be baby factories through multiple men. So they wouldn't love the bomb either.
Now I see How I Learned as referring to someone specific in the movie? The President was worried about the bomb early on, but then after Dr. Strangelove's speech at the end he began to love the bomb. So its really the Presiden'ts story all along about how his encounter with this situation and Dr. Strangelove changed his view. Does that make sense?
But back to the themes I mentioned. Back at that point of the cold war people were worried that a nuclear war would happen. This movie shows that even though both sides don't trust each other neither side wants a nuclear war to happen. But beyond that it shows just how ridiculous a set of circumstances would need to be for a nuclear war to occur at that time with no warning. Also it shows you could choose to worry about gung-ho generals pressing the button, but there really isn't a "button" to press. Its a whole red tape procedure with codes, authorizations, etc.
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