Word: ufo
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Greenland. Is this a Russian attack? Against that possibility, U.S. bombers speed to various "fail-safe" points. If the Soviet Union has really started war, the bombers will rain nuclear death on Russia; if it is a false alarm, the bombers will turn back. It turns out that the UFO is only a commercial airliner that has gone off course. Most of the Strategic Air Command bombers return to their bases. But wait! One six-bomber squadron is heading past its fail-safe point toward Moscow! Something horrible has gone wrong! A little electronic device...
FICTION: In Fail-Safe, when that UFO is sighted on the screens, the U.S. bombers head in squadrons toward their fail-safe rendezvous points, and arrive at those points simultaneously...