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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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Schlosser interleaves the minute-by-minute story of a 1980 Titan II missile accident with a history of America's nuclear arsenal, exposing how close catastrophe came through ordinary engineering and human error. A Hacker News favorite as a case study in safety-critical systems.
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