Were there films or literature that lampooned Mutual Assured Destruction made by non-Americans?
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I don't know of other movies (US or otherwise) that I would directly compare to Dr. Strangelove, but there is "The Mouse That Roared", which is a UK film gently mocking the American mindset at the time. It's worth watching, in my opinion, with Peter Sellers playing three different roles.
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The 1974 "Mr. Neutron" episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus features an increasingly unhinged American military commander (played by Michael Palin) bombing everything into smithereens in a demented series of attempts to take out the frighteningly powerful stodgy homebody, Mr. Neutron (played by Graham Chapman).
While not directly addressing MAD, it is an indirect satire since the "Commander" character is a take-off on General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) from Dr. Strangelove.
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There was a Roumanian comedy "S-a furat o bombă" (1961), translated to other languages as "A Bomb Was Stolen", "Die gestohlene Bombe", "Stolen Bomb". I've seen it in Soviet Union in a movie theater in 1960th.
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The UK series (and later film) Whoops Apocalypse springs to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wytIx3_SxUU
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