Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick's comedy about the bomb. Through a series of military and political accidents, a psychotic general - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D Ripper (Sterling Hayden) - triggers an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The U.S. President (Peter Sellers) and Dr. Strangelove (Sellers, again), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about man's future, work with the Soviet premier in a desperate effort to save the world.