Dr. Strangelove depicts the ominous and everpresent worry about an unstable person with power who has the ability to cause damage to a lot of people. The world of nuclear strategy is endlessly complicated with many levels of secrecy. I often fear for the safety of the country because of irrational foreign leaders, and the world-wide system of nuclear deterrent by armament.

Ultimately, I imagine that under sane control, the world is likely to not come to an end with a nuclear holocaust because few would really want that to happen. However, if there were a person in control who was delusional or homicidal, the delicate balance of nuclear prevention could fall. This is why it is imperative that the people in charge of the nuclear codes for any country be completely and utterly reliable. They must be regularly screened for mental illness and there must be many failsafes in the event that someone tries to take matters into their own hands.

I think one of the biggest threats to the world is nuclear sabotage. If some terrorist organization were able to hack into nuclear codes of any country and launch them at another country, the attacked country would respond with and equal and opposite force of nuclear weapons resulting in massive destruction. I think it is important that nations across the globe reduce their numbers of nuclear weapons so that if there was an accident or sabotage, there would still be a small faction of a change that the world was not entirely destroyed.