Name: Command and Control
Author: Eric Schlosser
ISBN: 9781101638668

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FL-0065E.V.

SCHLOSSER, Eric

Command and Control

2013

1. History 2. The Nuclear Age

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Eric Schlosser Command and Control (2013) Overview Two books braided into one. The first is a minute-by-minute reconstruction of the night of 18–19 September 1980, when a dropped socket punched a hole in the fuel tank of a Titan II missile in a silo outside Damascus, Arkansas, and the Air Force spent nine hours failing to decide what to do about it. The second is a seventy-year institutional history of how the United States has tried to keep its nuclear weapons from going off by accident — from the plutonium…

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Accession:FL-0065

ISBN-13:9781101638668

Published:2013

Language:en

Shelved under:History, The Nuclear Age

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