Command and Control Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

If you don't want to sleep, read Command and Control by Eric Schlosser. It's about the nuclear accident at Damascus.

Command and Control, among other things, talks about a bunch of the different, like, fuckups and errors that have happened along the way.

As Schlosser writes in the book Command and Control, Curtis LeMay hated the idea of lowyield tactical weapons, calling them a waste of fissile material, unlikely to prove decisive and difficult to keep under centralized control.

In the book Command and Control, Schlosser writes, LeMay was involved in almost every aspect of the plan, from selecting the mix of bombs, magnesium for high temperatures, napalm for splatter, to choosing a bomb pattern that could start a firestorm.

that's not something I knew until I read the book Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, which is one of the sources, one of several books that I used as sources for these episodes.

they seemed to speak highly of command and control. So why don't I use, you know, for that segment of the history, I'll focus more on what command and control or what 15 minutes has to say.

Schlosser has written several books, including Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Command and Control.

Schlosser has written several books including Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Command and Control.

Eric Schlosser's "Command and Control" examines the ways the nuclear arsenal was required to function at 100% --and what happened the few times it didn't.

Journalist Eric Schlosser explores this concept in his fascinating, terrifying book, Command and Control.

At one point, Schlosser reports that the military cataloged more than 1,000 significant incidents and accidents involving nuclear weapons between 1950 and 1968.

Schlosser dryly puts it, the partial detonation of a nuclear weapon, or two, or three, without any warning at the airbase considered essential for the defense of the United States could have been misinterpreted at SAC headquarters.