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Author:

Schlosser, Eric.

Title:

Command and control : nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety / Eric Schlosser.

Publisher:

The Penguin Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxiii, 632 pages ; 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.
Nuclear weapons--United States--History.
Nuclear weapons--History.--United States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-611) and index.

Contents:

Author's note -- Selected cast of characters -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- The Titan -- Not good -- New wave -- No lone zone -- Spheres within spheres -- Potential hazards -- Machinery of control -- The best, the biggest, and the most -- In violation -- Megadeath -- Accidents will happen -- Acceptable risks -- The optimum mix -- Breaking in -- Out of control -- Decapitation -- The brink -- An abnornal environment -- Damascus -- Balanced and unbalanced -- The wrong tape -- Like hell -- Con.rm or deny -- The end -- Epilogue.

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.

ISBN:

1594202273 (hbk.)
9781594202278 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2013017151

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