Book Report: Red Alert by Peter Bryant (1958)

 Red Alert is the basis for the movie: Dr. Strangelove and also possibly the book/movie: Fail Safe.  Red Alert doesn't have the humorous elements of Dr. Strangelove (especially the title character) but the movie plot does follow the book closely although the ending is different.

 

https://archive.org/details/red-alert-1958-by-peter-bryant

The author was a former RAF pilot.

Why read a book from the late 1950s and watch a movie from the 1960s ?  For one thing: Frontier internet went out after 1pm the day I read it so no chance to fool around on the internet that afternoon, so why not do some reading ?  Otherwise Ukraine would be my excuse :)  There aren't a lot of parallels but I imagine that a lot of the lethargy of the European and US response has been due to the nuclear power that Putin still commands.  People in the know are worried that if Russia loses that Putin will push the nuclear button.

Is Putin suicidal ?  I hope not.

BTW here is the Dr. Strangelove video:

https://archive.org/details/Popcornarchive-dr.Strangelove1964

Interesting article about Dr. Strangelove in the New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in-dr-strangelove-was-true

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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