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Author:
Schlosser, Eric.
Title:
Command and control : nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety / Eric Schlosser.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xxi, 632 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject:
United States--Strategic Missile Wing, 308th.--Strategic Air Command--Strategic Missile Wing, 308th.
Nuclear weapons--History.--United States--History.
Nuclear weapons--History.--Arkansas--History.
Titan (Missile)--History.
Nuclear weapons--United States--Safety measures.
Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-611) and index.
Summary:
Presents a minute-by-minute account of an H-bomb accident that nearly caused a nuclear disaster, examining other near misses and America's growing susceptibility to a catastrophic event.
Indexed by:
Library Journal Starred, September 2013.
Pub Weekly, July 2013.
Kirkus Starred, August 2013.
Booklist, September 2013.
New York Times, September 2013.
Choice, February 2014.
Library Journal Starred.
Pub Weekly.
Kirkus Starred.
ISBN:
0143125788
9780143125785
Locations:
AJPE887 -- Matilda J. Gibson Memorial Library (Creston)

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