Command and Control
Penguin Books
Command and Control interweaves the minute by minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years It depicts the urgent effort to ensure that nuclear weapons can t be stolen sabotaged used without permission or detonated inadvertently Schlosser also looks at the Cold War from a new perspective offering history from the ground up telling the stories of bomber pilots missile commanders maintenance crews and other ordinary servicemen who risked their lives to avert a nuclear holocaust Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with men who designed and routinely handled nuclear weapons Command and Control takes readers into a terrifying but fascinating world that until now has been largely hidden from view
