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Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking 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. While the harms of global warming increasingly dominate the news, the equally dangerous yet more immediate threat of nuclear weapons has been largely forgotten.
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Command and Control, Eric Schlosser
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Command and Control
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Eric Schlosser
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1846141494
- ISBN13
- 9781846141492
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Political Science & Politics, Politics, Science, Military History, Military Fiction, Wars, Cold War
- Original title
- Command and control
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking 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. While the harms of global warming increasingly dominate the news, the equally dangerous yet more immediate threat of nuclear weapons has been largely forgotten.