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The story of nuclear weapons and the illusion of safety, by eric schlosser latest articles. Through the details of a single accident, schlosser illustrates how an unlikely event can become. How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them. The author takes the story of the 1980 accident in the missile launch complex 3747 in arkansas. Famed investigative journalist eric schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of. But the events chronicled in command and control, a documentary by robert kenner based on the book by eric schlosser, are terrifying nonetheless. Around that story he weaves an enormous amount of information about the us air force missile. Air force has been handling thousands of nuclear weapons for nearly 70 years without a major radiation accident. Schlosser tasked filmmaker kevin ford with bringing. Command and control by eric schlosser overdrive rakuten. Command and control explores the longhidden accidents, near misses, technological breakthroughs, and extraordinary heroism connected to americas nuclear weapons program. Command and control the story of nuclear weapons and the illusion of safety, by eric schlosser print.
Unfortunately, the command and control of americas nuclear weapons has been far from 100% perfect, as investigative journalist eric schlosser points out in his latest book command and control. The oscarshortlisted documentary command and control, directed by robert kenner, finds its origins in eric schlossers book and continues to explore the littleknown history of the management and safety concerns of americas nuclear aresenal. From famed investigative journalist eric schlosser, author of fast food nation, comes command and control a groundbreaking account of the management of nuclear weapons. Oct 01, 2009 command and control is a terrifying book. The future of command and control ploughshares fund. Its a nonfiction thriller that tells the minutebyminute story.
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At first glance schlosser s topic is fairly technical, even rarefied. Oct 19, 20 eric schlosser, author of fast food nation, has written a new bookcommand and control. Command and control is how nonfiction should be written. Schlosser is the author of the bestselling expose fast food nation, published in 2001. Eric schlosser, author of fast food nation, spent six years researching americas nuclear weapons. A dramatic hourbyhour account of the damascus explosion is. Jul 03, 2014 unfortunately, the command and control of americas nuclear weapons has been far from 100% perfect, as investigative journalist eric schlosser points out in his latest book command and control. Nov 09, 2016 my book, command and control, explores how close the united states came during the cold war to having its own nuclear weapons detonate by accident on american soil. Kennedys inauguration, a b52 went into an uncontrolled spin above north carolina, sending a pair of fully. Control, directed by robert kenner, finds its origins in eric schlossers book.
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