The movie Fail Safe starts off in Omaha, Nebraska with a tour of an Air command’s control facility to Congressman Raskob and the tour is being giving by General Bogan. An alert is giving during the tour when SAC bombers are flying at their safe points and this was only thought to be a minor problem, but this called all planes to bomb the Soviet Union. The president seems to successfully call all the plans back to base, but group six is still headed towards the Soviet Union, they were unable to pick up the calls.
The rest of the plans are sent out to stop group six and even shoot them down before reaching the Soviet Union. The plans never get near group six due to lack of fuel and fall into the Artic Ocean. After this happens the president and the Omaha base try and help the Russians destroy the group of planes.
The thesis of the movie is that a war could of still broke out even
This movie really helped me understand what went on after the cold war and the destruction of the world from nuclear war. The understanding of the defense system was really cleared up in this movie and showed how it was suppose to work. The ways that it was to protect us from attacks from other countries, and how during this time that the technology was really stepped up with all of these threats. This movie was very interesting and keeps your attention the whole time your watching. Fail Safe was a great movie and really helped with the understanding of that situation in history.
This movie can be described as political history and social history. Political history because this had a lot to do with the president and his decisions and relations with the Soviet Union. He had to make important decisions on what he thought would be in the best interest of the country. This had to do wit