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Command and control
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- Summary
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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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- Creator
- Eric Schlosser
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London : Allen Lane, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 632 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781846141492, 1846141494, 9781846141485, 1846141486
- OCLC
- ocn857866827
- Includes 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 abnornal environment -- Damascus -- Balanced and unbalanced -- The wrong tape -- Like hell -- Con.rm or deny -- The end -- Epilogue
Subjects
- United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command. Strategic Missile Wing, 308th.
- Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- United States -- History.
- Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- Arkansas -- History.
- Titan (Missile) -- History.
- Nuclear weapons -- United States -- Safety measures.
- Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States.