Major Kong rides the bomb, Dr. Strangelove
Major Kong riding a falling nuclear bomb in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, used beside the CivBench account of Toulouse. This is a scene near the end, not the film’s final image.
ImageSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Film identity and release credits checked against the studio catalogue; placement checked against the local essay.
- Sony Pictures Museum — Dr. Strangelove
Supports the film title, 1964 release and Stanley Kubrick credit.
- Essay and image in this repository
The essay places this clip with its account of Toulouse. Checked against the local essay and its asset; the URL is the publication locator.
What this check doesn’t establish
- Source identification does not establish permission to reproduce this asset.
- The exact source of the extracted video file is not recorded.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
- Creator
- Stanley Kubrick
- Created
- 1964
- Medium
- video
- Rights
- fair dealingDr. Strangelove (1964), dir. Stanley Kubrick, Columbia Pictures
- Reuse notes
- The existing catalogue records a fair-dealing rationale for this use. No asset-specific licence or permission is recorded; this source review does not establish legal clearance.
The bomb-riding scene supplies the essay’s visual reference to nuclear escalation. The catalogue identifies the film, but does not establish the extraction history or licence of this video file.
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/images/strangelove-nuke.md
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