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Command and control :  nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety /  Print 
 Nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety 
Eric Schlosser. 
 - New York  Penguin Press  2013 
 - xxiii, 632 pages ;  25 cm  Hardback book. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781594202278 (hbk.) : 1594202273 (hbk.) 9781594202278 (hbk.) : 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013017151 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Air Force.  Strategic Air Command.  Strategic Missile Wing, 308th. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nuclear weapons--Accidents--History.--United States<br/>Nuclear weapons--Accidents--History.--Arkansas<br/>Titan (Missile)--History.<br/>Nuclear weapons--Safety measures.--United States<br/>Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.1/990976774 Sch    9