TY - BOOK AU - Schlosser,Eric TI - Command and control: nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety SN - 9780143125785 (paperback) AV - U 264.3 S345c 2014 U1 - 363.17/990976774 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - The Penguin Press KW - United States KW - Air Force KW - Strategic Air Command KW - Strategic Missile Wing, 308th KW - Estados Unidos. KW - Fuerza Aérea KW - Mando Aereo Estratégico KW - Fuerza Aerea KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Accidents KW - History KW - Arkansas KW - Titan (Missile) KW - Safety measures KW - Government policy KW - Armas nucleares KW - Historia KW - Política gubernamental KW - Estados Unidos N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-611) and index; Author's note -- Selected cast of characters -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- 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 abnornal environment -- Damascus -- Balanced and unbalanced -- The wrong tape -- Like hell -- Con.rm or deny -- The end -- Epilogue N2 - 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 ER -