Dr Strangelove: Descent?

Now, keep in mind this is not a film essay per se, had to write enough of those in UCLA for really annoying film history professors (William Marotti if anyone wants to know), but I want to point out that one can easily make the argument that there is a kind of theme, intentional or unintentional, of a kind of primal descent, into madness. And I don't really feel like writing a whole thing, so, this just will be a bunch of incomplete stuff, there's a lot of stuff missing in between I just don't care to fill out.

For example, in the first minutes of the film there's more a presentation, akin to a stoic Cold War official film. This is seen with the narration, only heard in the beginning of the film. At the start, after a disclaimer on the USAF's position on the events of the film, a voice suddenly comes up, almost like a government film or newsreel: "For more than a year, ominous rumors have been privately circulating among high level western leaders, that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon, a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog shrouded wasteland below the arctic peaks of the Zokov islands. What they were building, or why it should be located in a such a remote and desolate place, no one could say." This voice returns as the planes are seen: "In order to guard against surprise nuclear attack, America's Strategic Air Command maintains a large force of B-52 bombers airborne 24 hours a day. Each B-52 can deliver a nuclear bombload of 50 megatons, equal to 16 times the total explosive force of all the bombs and shells used by all the armies in World War Two. Based in America, the Airborne alert force is deployed from the Persian Gulf to the Arctic Ocean, but they have one geographical factor in common: they are all two hours from their targets inside Russia."

This detached manner starts to fade as the film goes on. By the middle, Group Captain Mandrake stays relatively sane as he realizes General Ripper is bombing Russia because of his impotence, and manages to get through to the president with the codes while the War Room plans for disaster. By the ending act, there is no Mandrake or buildings on the ground. It's the B52 and the underground shelter. On the plane, Kong goes riding the phallic bomb into oblivion, while the military and civilian leadership are now down in a dark place. Suddenly eager to the ideas of Strangelove, for a almost-fantasy version of the apocalypse where they can be polygamous to heart's content, free of previous constraints.

There was more but, cat got on the desk and I lost my train of thought.