"Dr. StrangeLove": Why did Kubrik use comedy to film the movie?

Stanley Kubrick's 1964 motion picture "Dr. Strangelove" or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. As we all know that when the script for the movie was first written it was not a funny, but a very serious movie about nuclear disaster in which every leaving creature on thisplanet would die. However when the director Stanley Kubrick began to film, things have changed. It was decided that it should be a comedy, a …

…it was extemly funny and very American. They pilot was from Taxes he likes rodeo like all the other fellas and so his dream came true. Second is that it showed this determination of the captain. He was not sad that he was dropped down with the bomb, he was actually very happy. It showed us how patriotic this character in the movie was. He would do anything to accomplish his mission and he did.