Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

neither the launch crew, nor the PTS team, knew that this missile had once been in a silo full of thick smoke and dying men.

It wasn't just a death machine capable of vaporizing millions of people in an instant -- it was a <i>haunted</i> death machine capable of vaporizing millions in an instant! That's like 3% or 4% more terrifying.