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

by Eric Schlosser

The year 1980, the start of a new decade, was when that change became palpable, in ways both trivial and telling.

Compare that to 2010 -- did anyone notice? The biggest difference was we stopped worrying about what to call the current decade. Did "the naughts" win in the end? No one knows.