Cast
- Peter Sellers as:
- Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, a British RAF exchange officer
- President Merkin Muffley, the American President and Commander-in-Chief
- Dr. Strangelove, the wheelchair-bound nuclear war expert and former Nazi, whose gloved but uncontrollable right hand apparently has a mind of its own
- George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson, an over-the-top and jingoist general who does not trust the Soviet ambassador
- Sterling Hayden as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, a paranoid ultra-nationalist
- Keenan Wynn as Colonel "Bat" Guano, the Army officer who finds Mandrake and the dead Ripper
- Slim Pickens as Major T. J. Kong, the B-52 Stratofortress bomber's commander and pilot
- Peter Bull as Soviet Ambassador Alexei de Sadeski
- James Earl Jones as Lieutenant Lothar Zogg, the B-52's bombardier
- Tracy Reed as Miss Scott, General Turgidson's secretary and mistress, the film's only female character. Reed also appears as "Miss Foreign Affairs," the centerfold in the June 1962 issue of Playboy magazine that Major Kong is shown reading in the cockpit.
- Shane Rimmer as Capt. "Ace" Owens, the B-52 co-pilot
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