Chris Welbon’s Reviews > Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety > Status Update

Missile and nuke tech has always fascinated me, and consumed almost an entire year of college. So far this is gripping, and even the familiar recap of the Manhattan Project stands out by including uncommented-upon violations of safety protocols and dangerous improvisation, which helps underscore just how long safety systems have been subverted, by accident or on purpose.