Command & Control

Written by Lee King

Eric Schlosser, the renowned investigative journalist has dug deep to discover secrets about how America’s nuclear arsenal is actually managed. Command & Control ($20) is a ground breaking and at times disturbing account of near misses, accidents, supreme heroism and major technological breakthroughs, this book explores the dilemma that has been in existence since the nuclear age dawned; how exactly do you deploy WMD’s, weapons of mass destruction, without actually being destroyed by them yourselves? This question has never been resolved, we don’t know if it ever will, but one thing is for certain; Schlosser and revealed how the lethal combination of technological complexity and human fallibility still poses a very grave threat to mankind.