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Subject Nuclear weapons Pages 632 Genre Non-fiction Publisher Penguin Books | 4.2/5 Goodreads Publication date September 17, 2013 Originally published 17 September 2013 Page count 632 ISBN 1594202273 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety is a 2013 nonfiction book by Eric Schlosser about the history of nuclear weapons systems in the United States. Incidents Schlosser discusses in the book include the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion and the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash.
Critical reception
It received a mixed review from the New York Times, which described it as a "disquieting but riveting book" and Schlosser as a "better reporter than policy analyst."
Lee H. Hamilton said, “The lesson of this powerful and disturbing book is that the world’s nuclear arsenals are not as safe as they should be. We should take no comfort in our skill and good fortune in preventing a nuclear catastrophe, but urgently extend our maximum effort to assure that a nuclear weapon does not go off by accident, mistake, or miscalculation.”