Command and control : nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety / Eric Schlosser.
Publisher: New York : The Penguin Press, 2013Description: xxiii, 632 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781594202278
- 9780143125785
- Nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety
- Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- United States -- History
- Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- Arkansas -- History
- Titan (Missile) -- History
- United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command. Strategic Missile Wing, 308th
- Nuclear weapons -- United States -- Safety measures
- Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States
- 363.17/990976774 23
- U264.3 .S45 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-611) and index.
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 abnormal environment -- Damascus -- Balanced and unbalanced -- The wrong tape -- Like hell -- Con.rm or deny -- The end -- Epilogue.
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