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Command and control :

by Schlosser, Eric, frey50
, Nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety Published by : Penguin Press (New York) , 2013 Physical details: xxiii, 632 pages ; 25 cm ISBN:9781594202278 (hbk.) :; 1594202273 (hbk.); 9781594202278 (hbk.) :.
Subject(s): 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.
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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 abnormal environment -- Damascus -- Balanced and unbalanced -- The wrong tape -- Like hell -- Confirm or deny -- The end.

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.