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I found the book “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety” much more terrifying.
by christkv 4y ago
I found the book “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety” much more terrifying.
- nappy-doo 4y agoI came to recommend this book as well. The book is simultaneously fascinating and terrifying.
- Victerius 4y agoRead "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a nuclear war planner" for a round two.
- saboot 4y agoFred Kaplan's book "The Bomb" is a good read too, haven't read doomsday machine but they sound similar.
- noefingway 4y agoDitto for "Command and Control". Good read, very terrifying how much lack of control there was/is. I can recommend "Raven Rock" as another good read. How very rational people and be totally irrational. Living near Raven Rock and Camp David for over 50 years, we always assumed that if the missiles started flying, we be toast in a nuclear wasteland.
- TigeriusKirk 4y agoBeyond the terror factor, the book is a fantastic history of technological development, and how a system of systems evolved to cope with additional failure states. I think it's worth reading and thinking about for anyone working in a technical field.
- lazyant 4y agoI got the book from a HN comment recommendation a few years ago, now I keep recommending myself for anything accidents :-)
- metadat 4y agoFree PDF download: https://vdoc.pub/download/command-and-control-nuclear-weapons-the-damascus-accident-and-the-illusion-of-safety-54nof3qbhjb0 https://vdoc.pub/download/command-and-control-nuclear-weapon...