Two more, by authors coincidentally with the same initials: Thinking in an Emergency (2012) by Elaine Scarry -- She argues for the importance of planning and p

Two more, by authors coincidentally with the same initials: Thinking in an Emergency (2012) by Elaine Scarry -- She argues for the importance of planning and procedure. Examples include the Swiss shelter system (civil defense), CPR training, and compacts in rural Canada to deal with grain silo fires. She suggests that careful thought before the emergency is vital for "civilization", or at lest for democratic governance. As a converse, the country is destabilized when an opportunist leader comes along, cowboy-style, and says, "This is a crisis, and I'm going to shoot from the hip and fix it". Hence it's both a pragmatic study and a lucid work of political philosophy. Command and Control (2014) by Eric Schlosser -- This is more of an anti-study: not what to do in an emergency, but the inevitable flaws in complex systems, the limited efficacy of administration, and the inherent failings of human effort. Sort of the mirror-book to Scarry's, but also utterly fascinating. It's a history of disasters of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, and in an effort as huge as that, the disasters certainly exist at scale. (Interestingly, Scarry's book centers on the importance of governance in a nuclear state, or perhaps that democratic governance is not compatible with being a nuclear power.)