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

Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

632 pages · 2014

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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.

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