Fail Safe By Eugene Harvey Character Analysis

The USAF, the United States government, the public, and the newspaper press believe that the novel, Fail Safe by Eugene Harvey and Burdick Wheeler creates controversy about the Military Forces. The USAF claims that the Fail Safe novel will just make the public believe that war can be caused by an accident, which is putting a horrible impression on the U.S. forces and puts the U.S. forces at fault. The USAF and the United States government also believes that the Fail Safe novel could be put into the hands of the communist, which could lead to several consequences, such as the U.S. prestige being damaged and how the U.S. is viewed world-wide. The newspaper press points out that the information of the novel does not add up since there …show more content…
The USAF seems to be very bothered by Eugene Harvey and Burdick Wheeler’s Fail Safe novel and believes that the novel’s message could have a negative view on the U.S. Military Forces. The USAF believes that the Fail Safe novel should only be considered as a fictional novel since most of the events that take place in the novel are not factual. The USAF claims that the authors had admitted that the miscommunication of the “go code” accident could not be realistic at all with the way it is portrayed in the novel. According to the USAF, the authors admitted this claim in the “Saturday Evening Post”. However, the USAF admits that in several different interviews, the authors have claimed that the events and the plot that takes place in the Fai Safe novel are based on factual information. In the letter from the USAF report on the Fail Safe novel, the USAF made several claims as to what the Fail Safe novel has wrong about the Strategic Air Command Positive Control System. The first claim the USAF makes is the Strategic Air Command Positive Control System does not rely on electronic boxes to send the “go code”. For example, in the USAF’s Evaluation of The Book …show more content…
Military Force. In USAF’s Estimate of The Public Reaction To “Fail Safe” letter, the USAF brings up some newspaper editor critics’ comments on the novel. Some of the newspaper editor critics include Norman Ross of “Chicago Daily News” and Warren Rogers of Herald Tribune. Warren Rogers believes that the Fail Safe novel is too much for the public to handle and the novel could end up being in the hands of communist. For instance, in the USAF’s Estimate of The Public Reaction To “Fail Safe” letter, it states ““Rogers predicted that it would be a “very damaging tool in the hands of clever and unscrupulous communist propagandists”. He questioned that such a book is in the national interest and commented that the novel’s theme and conclusions are in the mainstream of the Soviet propaganda line”. In Richard Rhodes’ Scorpions in a Bottle, Richard Rhodes explains the controversy between the United States and the Soviets during the Nuclear Age. At the end of Richard Rhodes’ Scorpions in a Bottle, Richard Rhodes claims that if President Kennedy had followed Curtis LeMay’s advice on the actions to take during the Cuban missile crisis, history would have forgotten the Holocaust and the United States would have ended in a global nuclear war. The United States would have had millions of Americans