Re:Teller and Strangelove (Score 1)

I would suggest that Dr. Strangelove used a number of Cold War figures, including Teller, Herman Kahn (the author of Mutual Assured Destruction, aka "MAD"), and a few of the other "nuke 'em back to the stone age" folk). Remember, it was made shortly after the Cuban missile crisis and in the very initial stages of the Viet Nam war. Another "ancestor" of Dr. Strangelove is the scientist in the 1926 film, Metropolis