What is the name of the rogue general in Dr. Strangelove who starts a nuclear attack?

What is the name of the rogue general in Dr. Strangelove who starts a nuclear attack? His name is Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper. In Stanley Kubrick's black comedy, Ripper commands Burpelson Air Force Base and secretly orders a group of B-52 bombers to attack the Soviet Union.

Ripper believes that the Soviets are contaminating American water supplies through fluoridation, which he describes as an assault on people's “precious bodily fluids.” His paranoid conviction turns a fictional military safeguard, Wing Attack Plan R, into the trigger for a nuclear crisis. The plan allows an isolated commander to launch an attack if senior leaders are presumed dead.

The other names are important but belong to different characters. Merkin Muffley is the U.S. president, Buck Turgidson is a hawkish American general, and Colonel “Bat” Guano is an Army officer. Peter Sellers plays Muffley, while Sterling Hayden plays Ripper, whose actions drive the film's catastrophic plot.