many killed or wounded
Any force trying to enter would certainly encounter heavy casualties.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964 — 第 7 / 20 章 · 3'57" · B2
Turgidson Argues for a First Strike, Explained：catch someone with their pants down
Turgidson lays out the case for striking first: catch the Soviets with their pants down and the war can be won. The president answers that America's policy is never to strike first, and that the general is describing not war but "mass murder." The argument ends with the president refusing to be history's greatest killer.
あらすじ
In the War Room, General Turgidson argues for a pre-emptive all-out attack on the Soviet Union. Striking first, he says, would catch the enemy with their pants down and leave America with a reserve force. President Muffley replies that the country's policy is never to strike first, and calls the plan mass murder rather than war.
注目の表現
with all due respectgo apecatch someone with their pants downmass murder
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このシーンの表現
catch someone with their pants down
catch someone unprepared
Turgidson promises the President they can catch the Soviets completely unprepared.
Surprise inspections often catch a whole team with their pants down.
このシーンの他の表現
- with all due respect
a polite way to disagree
- go ape
go wild, explode with anger
- mass murder
killing on a huge scale
- go down in history
be remembered by history
- breach of security
a failure that leaks secrets
このシーンのメモ一覧
46 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
push aside easily
General Turgidson, with all due respect for your defense team, My boys can brush them aside without too much trouble.a few
Mr. President, there are one or two points I'd like to make, if I may.before
Four, if prior to this time...present perfect: The present perfect stresses that nothing has been done up to now, setting up the consequence.
We have done nothing to suppress their retaliatory capabilities, We will suffer virtual annihilation.conversely
Now, Five, If, on the other hand, We were to immediately launch an all-out and coordinated attack...be to structure: Were to marks a hypothetical plan, close to 'if we were going to launch'.
Now, Five, If, on the other hand, We were to immediately launch an all-out and coordinated attack...The g in 'catching' often drops, sounding like 'catchin' 'em'.
On all their airfields and missile bases, We'd stand a damn good chance of catching 'em with their pants down.really good — Mild swearing; fine with friends, out of place in formal talk.
On all their airfields and missile bases, We'd stand a damn good chance of catching 'em with their pants down.as things stand
Hell, we got a five-to-one missile superiority as it is.mild swear word — A mild oath used for emphasis; avoid it with clients.
Hell, we got a five-to-one missile superiority as it is.backup forces
And still have a very effective reserve force for any other contingency.non-defining clause: The comma plus Which adds extra information about the remaining force; the main clause stands without it.
Only modest and acceptable civilian casualties from their remaining force, Which would be badly damaged and uncoordinated.openly stated policy
General, it is the avowed policy of our country...Stress both 'strike' and 'first' to keep the contrast clear.
Never to strike first with nuclear weapons.other options available
That was not an act of national policy. There are still alternatives open to us.the decisive moment
Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth, Both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation.decide between options
to make a choice. To choose between two admittedly regrettable, But nevertheless distinguishable, postwar environments.Link 'go down in' into a single run instead of three separate words.
I will not go down in history as the greatest mass murderer since adolph hitler!care more about
It might be better if you were more concerned with the american people...rage, throw a tantrum
He's having a fit about that squad of m.P.S. Can't be helped.military police — Military shorthand; not used in everyday talk.
He's having a fit about that squad of m.P.S. Can't be helped.the war map display
He'll see everything. He'll see the big board.exactly the intention
That is precisely the idea, general. That is precisely the idea.emergency supplies
"survival kit contents check.「Turgidson Argues for a First Strike」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is the film's central argument, played as a policy discussion and heard as a confession. Turgidson's case is built on numbers and euphemism: a five-to-one missile superiority, three missiles per target, and "only modest and acceptable civilian casualties." His most revealing line is not about the enemy but about the cost at home — "I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed" — a way of talking about nuclear deaths as a bad haircut. The president's objection is moral, but it is also practical: he will not "go down in history as the greatest mass murderer since adolph hitler." What makes the exchange chilling is that both men are calm, and the plan is defended as a choice between two "postwar environments" rather than as an atrocity. The comedy and the horror are the same thing: the language of strategy cannot describe what it is proposing.
Theme
SatireA plan for nuclear slaughter is argued with missile ratios, reserve forces and the phrase 'modest and acceptable civilian casualties.'
PowerA general pushes the president toward a first strike, and the president's only defence is his place in history.
このチャプターで学べること
- Numbered arguments can make atrocity sound like logistics.
- One redefinition can undo a whole military case.
- Rank still shows in who may interrupt whom.
- Even a president measures himself against the history books.
発音のポイント
- catching 'em — The g in 'catching' often drops, sounding like 'catchin' 'em'.
- strike first — Stress both 'strike' and 'first' to keep the contrast clear.
- go down in — Link 'go down in' into a single run instead of three separate words.
Three, when they do, they are going to go absolutely ape.Part of Turgidson's numbered argument: if the Soviets do retaliate, they will do it in total fury.
On all their airfields and missile bases, We'd stand a damn good chance of catching 'em with their pants down.His pitch for a first strike: hit everything at once and the enemy will be caught unprepared.
That was not an act of national policy. There are still alternatives open to us.The president's answer to Ripper's rogue order: the attack does not represent the country, and options remain.
Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing.Turgidson's preface to his proposal, framing mass killing as an unpleasant but necessary truth.
You're talking about mass murder, general, not war.The president's blunt verdict: the general's plan is not strategy but slaughter.
I will not go down in history as the greatest mass murderer since adolph hitler!The president's refusal, stated in the strongest terms he can find, to authorise the attack.
That is precisely the idea, general. That is precisely the idea.The president's calm reply about letting the Soviet ambassador into the War Room: the leak of the big board is deliberate.
このシーンについての質問
What is Turgidson arguing for?
A pre-emptive all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. He claims a first strike would catch the enemy with their pants down and let America prevail with only 'modest and acceptable' casualties.
Why does the president refuse the first strike?
He says it is against the country's declared policy never to strike first, and that the general's plan is not war but mass murder. He also refuses to be remembered as history's greatest killer.
What does 'get our hair mussed' mean?
It is Turgidson's euphemism for taking damage, here meaning American deaths in a nuclear exchange. He uses it to make the cost of war sound minor.
Why is the Russian ambassador brought into the War Room?
The president orders it, even though the general warns it is a breach of security and that the ambassador will see the big board. The president says seeing it is precisely the idea.
How does the argument end?
The president cuts Turgidson off, saying he has heard quite sufficient from him. He then has the Soviet ambassador brought in and asks to be connected to Premier Kissoff on the hot line.
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