Command and control
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.
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- Full title :Command and control / Eric Schlosser.
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.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:pages cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781594202278, 1594202273
- oclc:ocn318411575
- LC Classification:U264.3
- Dewey Decimal:355.8
Table of 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.
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