Fail Safe Indeed

[rich]

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb304/film03.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/11/us-military-propaganda-film

Burr describes the film as intended to counter early 1960s novels and
Hollywood films such as Fail-Safe, about a US president forced to drop an
atomic bomb on New York after America accidentally attacks Russia, and Dr
Strangelove.

"The air force wanted to show they have control of these weapons, they were
responsible, they would use them under presidential direction and they were
ready for war," he said.

Why the film was never shown to the public has not been explained, although
the answer may lie in a style that could be considered comforting only to
firm believers in the cold war doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction
(Mad).
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