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Command and Control

Command and Control

HistoryMilitary History
Pages
656
Published
1848
Language
English

Synopsis

Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, investigates the terrifying reality of managing America's nuclear arsenal. This book details the near-disasters, heroic actions, and technological leaps that have defined the nuclear age. It asks the crucial question: how do we control weapons of mass destruction without them controlling us?

Prose complexity
7/10

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History Military History Politics & Society Technology

About the author

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Eric Schlosser

Eric Matthew Schlosser is an American journalist and author known for investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013).