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Throbert McGee But at the same time, the American personnel on the sub are treated respectfully as professional military men in a difficult situation, not as monstrous stereotypes. (The cause of the crisis is an American sailor who goes crazy after accidental exposure to radiation -- as opposed to Kubrick's film, where the US military guys are nearly all jingoists and idiots, and the Soviet ambassador is almost as bad, with the British officer as the only voice of sanity.)