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Fail-Safe is a bestselling 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 novel, was released Read More..

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Description	Fail-Safe is a bestselling 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 novel, was released in late October 1962, and 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 so similar to an earlier novel, Red Alert, that Red Alerts author, Peter George, sued on a charge of plagiarism, settling out of court.
Description	Fail-Safe is a bestselling 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 novel, was released in late October 1962, and 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 so similar to an earlier novel, Red Alert, that Red Alerts author, Peter George, sued on a charge of plagiarism, settling out of court.

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Name	Fail-Safe
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Authors	Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
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Genre	Political thriller
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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