'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

2020
Movie
20 min
English

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.