John Harvey Wheeler Jr. was an American author, political scientist and scholar, best known as the co-author, with Eugene Burdick, of the Cold War novel Fail-Safe of 1962. The book depicted how easily things could go wrong in an age on the verge of nuclear war, and it was made into a film. He lived from 1918 to 2004. Fail-Safe was filmed in 1964 by Sidney Lumet with Henry Fonda. In later years he was a founding editor of the Journal of Social and Biological Structures and an early advocate of online education and the Internet as a democratizing tool.
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was an American author, political scientist, and scholar
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John Harvey Wheeler Jr. (October 17, 1918
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September 6, 2004) was an American author, political scientist, and scholar. He was best known as co-author with Eugene Burdick of Fail-Safe (1962), an early Cold War novel that depicted what could easily go wrong in an age on
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Author: Eugene Burdick; Harvey Wheeler
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