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Red Alert (1958)

di Peter Bryant (Pseudonym), Peter George (Autore)

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Peter Bryant's 1958 novel Red Alert tells the terrifying tale of just how close to nuclear destruction the world can be. Here, we are faced with the worst possible of all worst-case scenarios in the Cold War; an American general loses his reason and orders a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Air Force Brigadier General Quinten is a dying man suffering from the paranoid delusion that he can make the world a better place by setting in motion this catastrophic attack with Strategic Air Command bombers armed with nuclear weapons.Once they get wind of it, the President of the United States and his advisors work frantically in all efforts to stop the attack. They order the American bombers shot down, and they succeed - all but with one frightening exception - a lone bomber called the "Alabama Angel" escapes destruction. The crew of the Angel ignore the President's orders and continue on with their deadly mission.This book was originally published in the U.K. under the title Two Hours to Doom (written by Peter Bryant, the penname of writer Peter George). This intricately plotted and well-thought out novel conjures the vision of apocalyptic threat of nuclear war and illustrates just how absurdly easy such an attack can be triggered. virtual genre of such fiction sprang up in the late 1950s, led by Nevil Shute's On the Beach, of which Red Alert was among the earliest and finest examples. Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler's later bestseller, Fail Safe, so closely resembled Red Alert in premise and tone that George sued on plagiarism charges and actually won an out-of-court settlement. Both novels would inspire very different films that were both released in 1964.… (altro)
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The true genius in this book is how Stanley Kubrick came up with Dr. Strangelove out of this story. Red Alert is a serious Cold War Doomsday novel much like Fail-Safe even with a similar ending. Kubrick follows Peter Bryant’s basic plot line but layers it with insane black humor to provide a bizarro-world take on the whole “duck-and-cover” life in the Sixties. Skip the book and go straight to the film. ( )
  mtbass | Jan 11, 2024 |
An excellent, terrifying work. However, it is also one of the few writings which the movie based upon it surpassed it. Peter Bryant despite his intense pessimism, saw a way out: the world lived on, the bombs didn't go off, and Russia and America began working towards world peace. ( )
  illmunkeys | Apr 22, 2021 |
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I found both the book the film was based on, and the novelisation of the film, quick reads. Neither of the books is very funny. With Red Alert that is entirely intentional; it is written as an Awful Warning, and even so a couple of the better lines survived to the film in improved form. By contrast, the book-of-the-film leaves out a lot of the good lines and really brings home just how much the film owes to Kubrick's directorial genius. ( )
  nwhyte | Dec 28, 2019 |
Intense story of nuclear bombers headed for the Soviet Union and the mistaken outbreak of World War III. It was the source for Dr. Strangelove, which morphed into a very black comedy. This book plays everything straight, but will still entertain you with its doomsday scenario. ( )
  datrappert | Oct 24, 2016 |
USA og Sovjetunionen, sidst i 1950'erne
Øverstkommanderende på en amerikansk flyvestation Sonora, brigadegeneral Quinten, beslutter sig for at benytte sig af heldige omstændigheder til at forsøge at starte 3. verdenskrig. Han er motiveret af at ville gøre det rigtige for sit land, samtidigt med at han ved at han selv er dødssyg og ikke har lang tid igen. Han kan ene mand sende en eskadrille bombefly mod Sovjet, fordi der eksisterer en plan "R" til brug for den situation, hvor hele USA's kommandostruktur er blevet tilintetgjort men hvor en enkelt tilbageværende base har ildkraft nok til at kunne slå igen. Samtidig har han ændret dagskoderne til kommunikation med flyene og givet de to andre officerer, Bailey og Hudson, der kender den kode, fri til at gå på jagt.
Hans næstkommanderende er på jobrotation med en anden officer, major Paul Howard, hvilket også giver ham lidt ekstra råderum. Quinten sætter basen i krigsberedskab og afbryder kontakten med omverdenen efter at have ringet til sin chef, general Franklin, og fortalt ham at han har iværksat et first-strike angreb og at han råder Franklin til at sende resten af flyene afsted.
Quinten ved ikke at russerne har installeret automatiske dommedagsbomber i ural-bjergene. I tilfælde af udslettelse af fx Moskva vil en række kobolt-bomber automatisk sprænges og sprede radioaktivitet over hele kloden. Efter højst et år vil hele kloden være blottet for liv på jordoverfladen.
Præsidenten giver ordre til at storme Sonora-basen uden hensyn til tab. Det lykkes, men Quinten begår selvmord og koderne er derfor stadig en hemmelighed. Howard gætter sig til dem og næsten alle bombeflyene bliver kaldt tilbage. Et enkelt af dem har fået beskadiget radiomodtageren og fortsætter. Den ser ud til at ville ødelægge byen Kotlass, og den amerikanske præsident lover russerne at de må ødelægge Atlantic City som gengæld, hvis det skulle ske. Til alt held er den beskadigede bombemaskine ikke i stand til at nå helt frem og bomben er også beskadiget, så kun tændsatsen på nogle få hundrede kilotons eksploderer.
Bogen slutter med at den sovjetiske leder og den amerikanske præsident taler sammen for at forhindre gentagelser, så måske opnår Quinten faktisk at skabe fred på jord.

Bogen "Fail-safe" minder lidt om den her. Faktisk så meget at Peter Bryant lagde sag an. Det endte i et forlig, hvis detaljer aldrig er oplyst. Peter Bryant er forresten en pseudonym for Peter George, en engelsk forfatter, der også skrev "Commander-1" og som begik selvmord i 1966. ( )
  bnielsen | Sep 5, 2013 |
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Peter Bryant's 1958 novel Red Alert tells the terrifying tale of just how close to nuclear destruction the world can be. Here, we are faced with the worst possible of all worst-case scenarios in the Cold War; an American general loses his reason and orders a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Air Force Brigadier General Quinten is a dying man suffering from the paranoid delusion that he can make the world a better place by setting in motion this catastrophic attack with Strategic Air Command bombers armed with nuclear weapons.Once they get wind of it, the President of the United States and his advisors work frantically in all efforts to stop the attack. They order the American bombers shot down, and they succeed - all but with one frightening exception - a lone bomber called the "Alabama Angel" escapes destruction. The crew of the Angel ignore the President's orders and continue on with their deadly mission.This book was originally published in the U.K. under the title Two Hours to Doom (written by Peter Bryant, the penname of writer Peter George). This intricately plotted and well-thought out novel conjures the vision of apocalyptic threat of nuclear war and illustrates just how absurdly easy such an attack can be triggered. virtual genre of such fiction sprang up in the late 1950s, led by Nevil Shute's On the Beach, of which Red Alert was among the earliest and finest examples. Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler's later bestseller, Fail Safe, so closely resembled Red Alert in premise and tone that George sued on plagiarism charges and actually won an out-of-court settlement. Both novels would inspire very different films that were both released in 1964.

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