Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

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Thorndike Press, Sep 30, 2014 - History - 1042 pages
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorFamed 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? yet has never been resolved: How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?

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About the author (2014)

Eric Schlosser, a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, won a National Magazine Award for an article he wrote on strawberry picking for that magazine. His work has been nominated for several other National Magazine Awards and for the Loeb Award for business journalism.

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