Title Command and control : nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety / Eric Schlosser.

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Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, [2013]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	CDBK 363.17 SCHLOSSER	Check Shelf

Edition	Unabridged.
Description	17 audio discs (1230 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time	203000
Description	digital rda
	audio file CD audio rda
Note	Title from container.
Performer	Read by Scott Brick.
Note	Compact discs.
	Duration: 20:30:00.
Summary	"Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A ground-breaking 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: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved--and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind"--Publisher's web site.
Contents	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 abnormal environment -- Damascus. Balanced and unbalanced ; The wrong tape ; Like hell ; Confirm or deny ; The end.
Subject	United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command. Strategic Missile Wing, 308th.
	Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- United States -- History.
	Nuclear weapons -- Accidents -- Arkansas -- History.
	Titan (Missile) -- History.
	Nuclear weapons -- United States -- Safety measures.
	Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States.
	United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command. Strategic Missile Wing, 308th. (OCoLC)fst01917662
	Nuclear weapons -- Accidents. (OCoLC)fst01040972
	Nuclear weapons -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst01040980
	Nuclear weapons -- Safety measures. (OCoLC)fst01040998
	Titan (Missile) (OCoLC)fst01151517
	Arkansas. (OCoLC)fst01204809
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Audiobooks.
	Audiobooks.
Added Author	Brick, Scott.
Added Title	Nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety
ISBN	9780307702500 (Library ed.)
	0307702502 (Library ed.)
Standard No.	9780307702500 90000
Music No.	RHA 4460 Random House Audio

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