Red Alert

Red Alert is a 1958 novel about nuclear war by Peter George, originally published in the United Kingdom as Two Hours to Doom under the pseudonym Peter Bryant. It provided the underlying narrative structure for Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, though Kubrick's film diverges sharply from the novel by treating the same premise as black comedy. The novel deals with the threat of nuclear war and the ease with which it might be triggered, and was among the earliest works in a genre of topical nuclear fiction that emerged in the late 1950s alongside Nevil Shute's On the Beach. George later sued the authors of the bestseller Fail-Safe over its close resemblance to Red Alert's premise, reaching an out of court settlement; both novels went on to inspire different films released by the same studio in 1964. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/