Red Alert is a 1958 novel by Peter George about nuclear war. The book provided the underlying narrative structure for Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.[1] Kubrick's film differs significantly from the novel in that the film is a black comedy. Originally published in the UK as Two Hours to Doom, with George using the pseudonym "Peter B
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