![]() ![]() The technology is accurate and prescient. He died in the late 90s and this play was made well before that (mid 1970s), ie, it was set 20 years in the future. ![]() The parts are played well and had I not seen those two movies, it would have been an exciting radio play.įor those who haven't seen the movies, definitely listen to this - it's very good. ![]() This radio play is almost the same as "Dr. Follett was a tech writer at the British MoD, so he should have some awareness of the issues, but somehow in the process this story became stupid. Technical-focused stories shouldn't be written and produced by people who don't understand the relevant technology. Deeply implausible technical design, including both errors - assuming things are impossible which were well known or even obvious to even the most basic technical analyst in the 1960s, and assuming things are possible which are equally obviously impossible.īleh. I listened based on being interested in nuclear submarines (and particularly the question of what happens after the initial mission is accomplished), and the title being a quote from both the Bhagavad-Gita and Oppenheimer.īig problems: personnel and military leadership issues entirely incompatible with even a basic understanding of how the military actually works. Originally a BBC radio broadcast later a written novella. A story about a future submarine with a "fail-deadly" launch initiation system with the inevitable malfunction. ![]()
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