Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

The New Yorker “Excellent… hair-raising… Command and Control is how nonfiction should be written.” (Louis Menand) Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A ground-breaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved — and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind. Written with the vibrancy of a first-rate thriller, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort by American scientists, p...

Author: Schlosser Eric

ISBN: 9781410461933

Year of publication: 2013

Genre: History, Politics, Publicism

Number of pages: 864

Reading time: 14 h. 24 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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