I think it may have gotten some criticism at one point (I guess what doesn't these days), but probably one of my favorite books is on this topic, Command and Co

I think it may have gotten some criticism at one point (I guess what doesn't these days), but probably one of my favorite books is on this topic, Command and Control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book) It goes through a number of accidents that I wasn't personally aware of, but also goes through a number of political items that make the whole situation very scary, Such as I think it was the US Air Forces massive push back to putting any codes on the weapon triggers, or setting every code to 0000 when finally forced to do so. Or how a technician was able to smuggle out a training nuclear bomb to show his girlfriend what he did at work, which was stored with the live nuclear bombs. Anyways, super interesting book.