Kyle Harrison
to-read
Red Alert
- Author
- Peter George
- Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 191
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: The 1958 thriller — published in Britain as Two Hours to Doom under the pen name Peter Bryant — that Kubrick bought and turned into Dr. Strangelove. George wrote it straight: a wing commander launches his bombers and the system has no way to recall them.
Where I saw it: A bare Amazon link saved in the note.
Connections
- The Doomsday Machine — Ellsberg’s non-fiction account of the same failure mode, also saved in this note.
Referenced in
- The Doomsday Machine note