He was hired for the first James Bond film, "Dr. No" (1962). Adam did not work in the second James Bond film, "From Russia with Love" (1963) because he was working on Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1964). His work on this film was described by the British Film Institute (BFI) as "gleaming and sinister." Steven Spielberg even called it "the best set that's ever been designed." He turned down the opportunity to work on Kubrick's next project, "" (1968), after he found out that Kubrick had been working with NASA for a year on space exploration, and that would put him at a disadvantage in developing his art.