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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

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.

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J. Hoberman

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Frieda Altman

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Nancy Berg

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Edward Binns

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Dana Elcar

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Henry Fonda

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Larry Hagman

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William Hansen

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Walter Matthau

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Dan O'Herlihy

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Frank Overton

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Hildy Parks

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Peter Becker

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Elizabeth Pauker

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Gary Bradley

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Grant Delin

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