TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sagan,Scott Douglas
TI  - The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons 
T2  - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
SN  - 9780691213064
U1  - 363.17/9 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Accidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Safety measures
KW  - HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Airline accidents
KW  - Bomb alarm system
KW  - Bundy, McGeorge
KW  - Chernobyl accident
KW  - Civilian oversight
KW  - Culture of reliability
KW  - DEFCON 1 alert
KW  - Escalation potential
KW  - Fail-safe system
KW  - Garbage can model
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Hartinger, James
KW  - ICBM operations
KW  - Interactive complexity
KW  - Kennedy, John R
KW  - March, James
KW  - Mental stability
KW  - Missile forces
KW  - Navigational errors
KW  - Nuclear proliferation
KW  - Operator error
KW  - Organizational culture
KW  - Personnel redundancy
KW  - Rules of engagement
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Test launches
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Acronyms --; Introduction. Expecting the Unexpected --; Chapter 1. The Origins of Accidents --; Chapter 2. Nuclear Weapons Safety during the Cuban Missile Crisis --; Chapter 3. Intelligence and Warning during the Cuban Missile Crisis --; Chapter 4. Redundancy and Reliability: The 1968 Thule Bomber Accident --; Chapter 5. Learning by Trial and Terror --; Chapter 6. The Limits of Safety --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a world full of hazardous technologies. Yet, the apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear arsenals can serve as a secure deterrent for the foreseeable future. In this provocative book, Scott Sagan challenges such optimism. Sagan's research into formerly classified archives penetrates the veil of safety that has surrounded U.S. nuclear weapons and reveals a hidden history of frightening "close calls" to disaster
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