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Fail-Safe (novel)
''Fail-Safe'' is a best-selling novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The story was initially serialized in three installments in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' on October 13, 20, and 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The popular and critically acclaimed novel, released in late October 1962, was then adapted into a 1964 film of the same name directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, and Walter Matthau. In 2000, the novel was adapted again for a televised play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS. All three works have the same theme—accidental nuclear war—with the same plot.
''Fail-Safe'' was extremely similar to an earlier novel, ''Red Alert''—so similar that ''Red Alert''s author, Peter George, sued on a charge of plagiarism, settling out of court.
==Title==
The title refers to the "fail-safe point" used by the Strategic Air Command (SAC) to prevent a SAC bomber from accidentally crossing into Soviet airspace and precipitating a nuclear war. In general a fail safe ensures that, as far as possible, the machine or process will not make things worse in the event of something going wrong. The title's irony is that the nature of SAC's fail-safe protocols could make things worse, causing the event it was intended to prevent.
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