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Radio reporter Herbert Morrison's words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg (Oh, the humanity!) are etched in our collective memory. Yet while we use the Hindenburg --like the Titanic --as shorthand for the technological hubris of a bygone era, we seem to have forgot…
"Oh, the humanity!" Radio reporter Herbert Morrison?s words on witnessing the destruction of the -- Monsters Such foolishness is not limited to the industrial age: newer examples of pathological technologies include the US government?s planned use of hydrogen bombs for large-sca…
"Examines the perils of what the author calls pathological technologies, inventions whose sizeable risks are routinely minimized as a result of their almost mystical allure, "--Novelist.
Relying largely on first-person accounts of those involved, the author covers the tragic accident and fireball that brought death or injury to more than a hundred paratroopers at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, on 23 March 1994. She then chronicles not only the initial resp…