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Original Title:	Fail-Safe
ISBN:	088001654X (ISBN13: 9780880016544)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Washington, D.C.(United States) New York City, New York(United States) Omaha, Nebraska,1962(United States) …more Moscow, USSR,1962 …less

Fail-Safe

Eugene Burdick

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 5172 Users | 171 Reviews

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Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination—Moscow.

In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake.

First published in 1962, when America was still reeling from the Cuban missile crisis, Fail-Safe reflects the apocalyptic attitude that pervaded society during the height of the Cold War, when disaster could have struck at any moment. As more countries develop nuclear capabilities and the potential for new enemies lurks on the horizon, Fail-Safe and its powerful issues continue to respond.

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Title	:	Fail-Safe
Author	:	Eugene Burdick
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Ecco Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	July 10th 1999 by The Ecco Press (first published January 1st 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. War. Science Fiction. Classics

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The book is mostly like the 1964 movie except the characters are a little more filled out. The end is more moving in my opinion than the movie. See my updates for more about the book.

Love the front cover graphics on Fail-Safe, admittedly that's what drew me to it, but this war thriller is just as vivid and evocative in its content as it is in its cover. It's an exciting story that will have any reader questioning the world around them.

I think that On the Beach, Alas Babylon, and Fail Safe, are, in essence, a bit of a trilogy. You have the beginning, the middle, and the end. I liked Fail Safe, it gives you a lot to think about, and although it was written in the 50s I still think its relevant. We do put entirely too much faith in machines, and more recently we have had the advent of social media to throw into the mix. We bow down to our technological gods and worship our iPhones and Alexas. The idea of a nuclear war being

This novel was the #6 bestseller of 1962. It was originally serialized in three weekly issues of the Saturday Evening Post in October, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was an eerie and discomforting read covering a possible breakdown of technology leading to nuclear war. Of course, that was the fear I lived under in high school. That some mad man would "push the button" and within 24 hours we would all be fried and gone. The book is liberally loaded with technical terms and nuclear



Surprisingly not too dated. Sure, the Cold War is over and the chance of a mechanical malfunction triggering global thermonuclear war is minimal -- but the world hasn't changed that much.

Read the book, as with a few others, shortly after seeing the movie the first time it was shown on TV in the 60's. As usual there was a bit more in the book than would fit on the screen and parts that are nearly unfilmable. It is certainly a striking premise that a president would do what the fictional president does in this book to avert an all-out exchange, a prospect that only continued to grow in horror for the next twenty years or so after the book came out as the stockpile of warheads