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A list of unused titles for Dr. Strangelove, lifted from Stanley Kubrick’s notebooks

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From the notebooks of Stanley Kubrick comes this most excellent list of movie titles that never saw the light of day, but were evidently considered for the film that Kubrick would eventually name Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

There are plenty of mentions of Dr. Strangelove, bombs, and even implications that one should love and cherish said “wonderful bomb,” but you won’t find the final title in this list. Still, it gives one pause to think how this movie would have been received had Kubrick settled on the decidedly tantalizing title of Dr. Strangelove’s Secret Uses of Uranus.

Doctor Doomsday

Don’t Knock the Bomb

Dr. Doomsday and his Nuclear Wiseman

Dr. Doomsday Meets Ingrid Strangelove

Dr. Doomsday or: How to Start World War III Without Even Trying

Dr. Strangelove’s Bomb

Dr. Strangelove’s Secret Uses of Uranus

My Bomb, Your Bomb

Save The Bomb

Strangelove: Nuclear Wiseman

The Bomb and Dr. Strangelove or: How to be Afraid 24hrs a Day

The Bomb of Bombs

The Doomsday Machine

The Passion of Dr. Strangelove

Wonderful Bomb

This transcript of legible title candidates comes courtesy of Lists of Note; the notebook scan itself is via The Stanley Kubrick Archives.

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