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Schlosser, Eric.
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United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command.
Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- United States.
Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- Arkansas.
Nuclear weapons -- United States -- Safety measures.
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States.
Titan (Missile)
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Schlosser, Eric.
United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command.
Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- United States.
Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- Arkansas.
Nuclear weapons -- United States -- Safety measures.
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States.
Titan (Missile)
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Command
and control : nuclear weapons, the Damascus accident, and the illusion of safety / Eric Schlosser.
by
Schlosser, Eric.
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2013.
Call #:
LP 355.825119 S345c
Subjects
United
States
.
Air
Force
.
Strategic
Air
Command
.
Nuclear weapons -- Accidents --
United
States
.
Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- Arkansas.
Nuclear weapons --
United
States
-- Safety measures.
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy --
United
States
.
Titan (Missile)
ISBN:
9781410461933 (hc.)
1410461939 (hc.)
Edition:
Large print edition.
Description:
1041 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 957-1037).
Contents:
Part one: The Titan. Not good -- New wave -- No lone zones -- Spheres within spheres -- Potential hazards -- Part two: Machinery of control. The best, the biggest, and the most -- In violation -- Megadeath -- Part three: Accidents will happen. Acceptable risks -- The optimum mix -- Breaking in -- Part four: Out of control. Decapitation -- The brink -- An abnormal environment -- Part five: Damascus. Balanced and unbalanced -- The wrong tape -- Like hell -- Confirm or deny -- The end.
Summary:
September 18, 1980 at 6:30 p.m., during routine maintenance on a USAF Titan-II missile at Little Rock
Air
Force
Base, just north of Damascus, Arkansas, a socket wrench fell, causing evacuation and a later explosion. One airman died but the warhead's safety features prevented catastrophe. From investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, comes an account of the management of nuclear weapons. Through 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?
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