Fail-Safe
by Eugene Burdick; Harvey Wheeler
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 044012459X
- ISBN 13
- 9780440124597
- Seller
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About This Item
October 1978. New Dell Edition. Second printing, September 1979. Very Good. Interior unmarked but lightly tanned. Spine straight and tight with a light crease. Edgewear. Dog-ear crease to lower rear corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 285 pages.
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.
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.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000034
- Title
- Fail-Safe
- Author
- Eugene Burdick; Harvey Wheeler
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Pa
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Dell Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 044012459X
- ISBN 13
- 9780440124597
- Publisher
- Dell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 1978
- Keywords
- fiction, foreign, international, affairs, relations, security, government, military, air force, nuclear, accidents, weapons, war, Cold War, Soviet Union
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics & Government; International Relations; Military and Defense; Russia, Soviet Union, etc.; Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo
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