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...start and end Fail-Safe with the thesis that war by accident is possible-terrifyingly possible-an assumption already granted by SAC, President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense McNamara, Premier Khrushchev, and half a dozen Nobel prizewinning scientists. TIME, on the other hand, seems to be asserting that accidental war is fanciful, unlikely, and that even to discuss it comes close to being unpatriotic...
FICTION: All the trouble is caused because one of six "fail-safe machines" in SAC's Omaha headquarters has blown a condenser...
...FACT : SAC has no such machines...
FACT: Under the system actually in operation, if SAC bombers ever got as far as their fail-safe points, they would fly singly to separate points and arrive at different times...
...chemist enjoyed preaching that science is above national politics. But he had a pragmatic side: in 1958, a fellow Russian remarked that what he feared most was an accidental and irresponsible attack on Russia by the U.S., and Topchiev grinned back: "What I fear most is responsible bombing by SAC...