What actor rode an atomic bomb in the movie, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 political satire black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the USA. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, stars Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and features Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, and Slim Pickens. Production took place in the United Kingdom. The film is loosely based on Peter George's thriller novel Red Alert.

The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general (Sterling Hayden) who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It follows the President of the United States (Peter Sellers), his advisers of which Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers) is one, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer (Peter Sellers) as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. It separately follows the crew of one B-52 bomber commanded by Major T. J. Kong (Slim Pickens) as they try to deliver their payload.

In the closing moments of the movie, Major Kong, who has selected a closer target because his aircraft is damaged goes to the bomb bay where he crimps some broken electric wiring, whereupon the doors open. With Kong straddling it like a rodeo bull, the bomb falls and detonates.