By Eric Schlosser
The New Yorker
“Excellent... a hair-raising, minute-by-minute account of an coincidence at a Titan II missile silo in Arkansas, in 1980, which [Schlosser] renders within the demeanour of a techno-thriller… Command and Control is how nonfiction can be written.” (Louis Menand)
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to discover secrets and techniques in regards to the administration of America’s nuclear arsenal. A ground-breaking account of injuries, near-misses, remarkable heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the challenge that has existed because the sunrise of the nuclear age: how do you set up guns of mass destruction with out being destroyed by way of them? that question hasn't ever been resolved--and Schlosser unearths how the mix of human fallibility and technological complexity nonetheless poses a grave danger to mankind.
Written with the vibrancy of a primary mystery, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute tale of an coincidence at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with a old narrative that spans greater than fifty years. It depicts the pressing attempt through American scientists, policymakers, and army officials to make sure that nuclear guns can’t be stolen, sabotaged, used with no permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser additionally seems on the chilly conflict from a brand new standpoint, providing historical past from the floor up, telling the tales of bomber pilots, missile commanders, upkeep crews, and different usual servicemen who risked their lives to sidestep a nuclear holocaust. on the middle of the ebook lies the fight, amid the rolling hills and small farms of Damascus, Arkansas, to avoid the explosion of a ballistic missile sporting the main robust nuclear warhead ever equipped through the United States.
Drawing on lately declassified records and interviews with males who designed and frequently handled nuclear guns, Command and keep an eye on takes readers right into a terrifying yet attention-grabbing global that, formerly, has been mostly hidden from view. throughout the information of a unmarried twist of fate, Schlosser illustrates how an not going occasion can turn into unavoidable, how small hazards may have negative effects, and the way the main really good minds within the country can in simple terms supply us with an phantasm of control. Audacious, gripping, and unforgettable, Command and regulate is a travel de strength of investigative journalism, an eye-opening examine the risks of America’s nuclear age.
Time magazine
“A devastatingly lucid and particular new historical past of nuclear guns within the U.S. … fascinating.” (Lev Grossman)
Financial Times
“So incontrovertibly correct and so damnably readable... a paintings with the multilayered density of an ambitiously conceived novel… Schlosser has performed what journalism does at its best."
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