- United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command. Strategic Missile Wing, 308th, Nuclear weapons, Government policy, United States
From investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, comes an account of the management of nuclear weapons. Through 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?
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- Author
- Eric Schlosser
- First published
- 1848
- Pages
- 644
- Publisher
- The Penguin Press, Penguin Books, Limited, Beck C. H.
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780141943176
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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).
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