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

✍ Scribed by Schlosser, Eric

• Book ID: 107906588
• Publisher: Penguin Group US
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 605 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101638668

✦ Synopsis

The New Yorker
"Excellent... a hair-raising, minute-by-minute account of an accident at a Titan II missile silo in Arkansas, in 1980, which [Schlosser] renders in the manner of a techno-thriller... 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... ϡ쯦랠