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Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 20 h y 34 m
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A myth-shattering exposé of America's nuclear weapons.
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved - and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind. While the harms of global warming increasingly dominate the news, the equally dangerous yet more immediate threat of nuclear weapons has been largely forgotten.
Written with the vibrancy of a first-rate thriller, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with a historical narrative that spans more than 50 years. It depicts the urgent effort by American scientists, policy makers, and military officers to ensure that nuclear weapons can't be stolen, sabotaged, used without permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser also looks at the Cold War from a new perspective, offering history from the ground up, telling the stories of bomber pilots, missile commanders, maintenance crews, and other ordinary servicemen who risked their lives to avert a nuclear holocaust. At the heart of the book lies the struggle, amid the rolling hills and small farms of Damascus, Arkansas, to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States.
Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with people who designed and routinely handled nuclear weapons, Command and Control takes readers into a terrifying but fascinating world that, until now, has been largely hidden from view. Through the details of a single accident, Schlosser illustrates how an unlikely event can become unavoidable, how small risks can have terrible consequences, and how the most brilliant minds in the nation can only provide us with an illusion of control. Audacious, gripping, and unforgettable, Command and Control is a tour de force of investigative journalism, an eye-opening look at the dangers of America's nuclear age.
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The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today.The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill.
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De: David E. Hoffman
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Raven Rock
- The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die
- De: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
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A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die - a road map that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today.
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- De Brewer Richardson en 05-05-17
De: Garrett M. Graff
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The Razor's Edge
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Michael Page
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The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel; studies philosophy and religion in Paris; lives as a monk, and witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring 20s.
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An Classic of Love and the Desire for Meaning
- De Eric en 01-06-17
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Atomic Accidents
- A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
- De: James Mahaffey
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
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From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters.
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A NUCLEAR POINT OF VIEW
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 01-05-15
De: James Mahaffey
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The Most Secret Memory of Men
- De: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Lara Vergnaud - translator
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
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In 2018, Diegane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the "Black Rimbaud," after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery, Diegane decides to search for T.C. Elimane, going down a path that will force him to confront the great tragedies of history, from colonialism to the Holocaust.
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The Doomsday Machine
- De: Daniel Ellsberg
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The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, when Ellsberg had high-level access to them.
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Fascinating Insider Story
- De Terry Masters en 12-07-17
De: Daniel Ellsberg
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The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- De: David E. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
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The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today.The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill.
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- De Brian en 11-16-10
De: David E. Hoffman
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Raven Rock
- The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die
- De: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
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A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die - a road map that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today.
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- De Brewer Richardson en 05-05-17
De: Garrett M. Graff
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The Razor's Edge
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Michael Page
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The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel; studies philosophy and religion in Paris; lives as a monk, and witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring 20s.
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An Classic of Love and the Desire for Meaning
- De Eric en 01-06-17
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Atomic Accidents
- A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
- De: James Mahaffey
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters.
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- De chetyarbrough.blog en 01-05-15
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Richard Rhodes
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly - or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity, there was a span of hardly more than 25 years.
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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Richard Rhodes' landmark history of the atomic bomb won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, in this majestic new masterpiece of history, science, and politics, he tells for the first time the secret story of how and why the hydrogen bomb was made, and traces the path by which this supreme artifact of 20th-century technology became the defining issue of the Cold War.
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Minuteman
- A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
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David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation. Although its nuclear warhead may have lacked power relative to that of the Titan II, the Minuteman more than made up for this in terms of numbers and readiness to launch - making it the ultimate ICBM.
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- De Julie K. en 08-08-21
De: David Stumpf
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Idaho Falls
- The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
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- Narrado por: Bob Dunsworth
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When asked to name the world’s first major nuclear accident, most people cite the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster. Revealed in this book is one of American history’s best-kept secrets: the world’s first nuclear reactor accident to claim fatalities happened on United States soil. Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho’s Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961, killing the three-man maintenance crew on duty.
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A Really Good, but Dreadfully Written Book
- De Matthew en 03-08-17
De: William McKeown
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The Bomb
- Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
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- Narrado por: Edward Bauer
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Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories - based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents - of how America’s presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today.
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Excellent, important book, bad narration.
- De Richard L. Hubbell en 02-06-20
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Fast Food Nation
- The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
- De: Eric Schlosser
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
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To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.
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- De Mark Freeman en 12-23-03
De: Eric Schlosser
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- De: Richard Rhodes
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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.
De: Richard Rhodes
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The Pentagon's Brain
- An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
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- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
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Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times best seller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times best-selling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain".
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Scientia Est Potentia/Knowledge is Power
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De: Annie Jacobsen
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Skunk Works
- A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
- De: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
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From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies. Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds.
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Ben Rich's life story...but not in that order
- De Allstar en 11-05-16
De: Ben R. Rich, y otros
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
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On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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The Good Food Revolution
- Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
- De: Will Allen, Charles Wilson - with, Eric Schlosser - foreword
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
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A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur "Genius Award" winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed - and heal - broken communities. An eco-classic in the making, The Good Food Revolution is the story of Will's personal journey, the lives he has touched, and a grassroots movement that is changing the way our nation eats.
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This story teaches how to take back the soil
- De Shawn Borup en 11-09-19
De: Will Allen, y otros
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Atoms and Ashes
- A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
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Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents—Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima—Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power, both for military and peaceful purposes, while offering a vivid account of how individuals and governments make decisions under extraordinary circumstances.
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This was a pretty sensational and biased book.
- De J. Seawright en 06-11-22
De: Serhii Plokhy
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Command and Control
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- Michael J Canning
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Very interesting. Somewhat hard to follow.
Would you listen to Command and Control again? Why?
Command and Control tells two stories concurrently, alternating back and forth, from one to the other. The first story is the story of the Damascus incident, in which a Titan nuclear missile came close to exploding in Arkansas due to a series of oversights which, as the author documents, are not nearly as rare as the public might suppose. The second story is the history of nuclear weapons themselves - their use, development, design, and testing, as well as their technical limitations (or lack thereof) and the strategic calculations that drove their development and deployment during the Cold War.
The first narrative, which recounts the Damascus incident, is illuminating and entertaining, but at times it also feels overly drawn-out and confusing. This is largely due to the way its telling is broken up over the course of the book. This structure might work better in print, but I found it challenging in audio format. The second narrative - where the author traces the history of nuclear weapons broadly, from the Manhattan Project to the present, is where the book really excels. It is first-rate. I would listen this portion of the again, for sure, and recommend it to others interested in the subject without any reservation.
On the whole, a very good book.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Command and Control?
The discussion of thermonuclear weapons, as opposed to pure fission bombs, and how the former fundamentally altered the strategic calculus about the use of nuclear weapon in war. In the modern era, we do not really distinguish between the awesome but comprehensible power of fission bombs, and the truly cataclysmic and unthinkable force of thermonuclear weapons, but the distinction was actually a major turning point in the way these weapons were viewed by political and military leaders. A second highlight was the author's excellent history of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, and its rivalry with the other military services and the (civilian) U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for primacy in the control U.S. nuclear weapons capabilities.
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- Kingsley
- 01-17-17
Command and Lack of Control
In the 1996 movie "Broken Arrow" Frank Whaley's character says "I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it." Now that movie uses the term 'broken arrow' incorrectly, as it is any accidental event that involves nuclear weapons including detonation (nuclear or not), radiation leaks, lose of a weapon etc. but that fact is there are a huge amount of 'broken arrow' or near broken arrow incidents. During the peak of the cold war there were dozens, or even hundreds, each year. Eric Scholosser provides an extremely well researched book covering US military nuclear incidents and 'broken arrow' events. And it is scary.
The book tells two stories - one storyline focusing on a major non-nuclear explosion of a nuclear missile silo in Damascus AK in 1980, the events causing it, the actions taken during and then after the explosion, the then the other story follows the overall history of USA's use of nuclear weapons and incidents, starting with the Manhattan Project, going through the history of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and through the Cold War. The book outlines many of the research, testing, command structures around the development, command and control of the US nuclear arsenal, and looks into the events and causes of many of the broken arrow events. From old computers, to faulty reporting, to poor wiring, to lack of safety equipment, to human error the causes are often minor or silly, but with near extreme consequences.
It is worth noting it has always been "near extreme" consequences, with no nuclear weapons going thermonuclear by accident.
This book, along with James Mahaffey's "Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima", which focuses on nuclear incidents at power plants and other non-military installations, presents both a scary but interesting view of nuclear power and weapons.
Well researched and always engaging this book is a great read and certainly with the time.
This is another book narrated by Scott Brick. At this point I'm just copying and pasting old review of Brick's work. I've never heard of a more divisive narrator. People love him or hate him. I'm on the love him side, but your mileage may vary. He is clear and crisp, well paced and highly engaging while basically disappearing into the book. He is easy to listen to without ever "taking over" the book and drawing you out of it, or allowing you to be distracted.
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- Brian Ross
- 02-19-17
Well written, narrated, and truly frightening
This book will SCARE you as only real things in life can. I knew that we had come close to nuclear wars and weapons disasters, but never knew it was THAT CLOSE.
I would like to think my Dad played a part in our Cold War survival as a Quality Assurance Inspector of munitions.
COMMAND AND CONTROL is very well narrated, too. Scott Brick is excellent. I will seek out his other narrations.
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- Toney
- 10-04-18
Maybe the best book I’ve ever listened to!
The impeccable authorship and flawless narration have combined to make this work a masterpiece. Get this book!
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- Al
- 09-06-19
Factually fascinating read
This kept my husband and me entertained throughout a long road trip through Canada. We turned it off through customs due to the nature of the material provided. My only critique was it jumping back and forth in time and repeating information from different view points but I don’t have the skill or knowledge to say how it could have been presented differently. Scott Brick is a captivating narrator and is how I came about finding this masterpiece.
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- aPriL does feral sometimes
- 03-24-18
Scary
Scott Brick does a great job narrating Eric Schlosser’s amazing true story about the history of developing America’s nuclear weapons and the near disasters of America’s nuclear maintenance. There were lots of military discussions on how and when to use nuclear weapons in war, too, which are terrifying to hear.
Many of the documents Schlosser gained access to in order to write this book were through the Freedom of Information Act and had been classified decades ago. Plus the author interviewed many of the scientists, officers and soldiers who had been involved in the development and maintenance of the varied types of nuclear weapons, and subsequent accidents. Schlosser’s writing is at a high level of literary quality as well.
I think the book is a fantastic overview for the general reader.
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- Paul
- 12-31-15
if you have any remote interest in the Cold War...
if you have any interest in the Cold War, nuclear weapons security, safety, are either for or against their proliferation, this is an absolutely candid and is neutrally balanced book as I have found on the topic. I would note that occasionally the flashbacks to history will stretch various nuclear accident stories' recountings a bit long, but overall, this book covers everything from the minutiae to the strategic. If you have any remote interest in the politics, the science, the implications, the ethics, the statistics, the probabilities, and the future... has influenced by nuclear weapons, the Cold War, and life afterward... This book becomes a must read... I would also add that the narrator does a great job! Very often books in this format live and die by good narration, and this one is done exceedingly well.
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- James S
- 06-14-14
Scared me to the core
Wow, fantastic account of our nuclear weapons program to date. But scary as can be in conveying how close we have come to total disaster so many times. The author does a fantastic job of telling the history of the program, the politics behind it and how congress, the culture of the times and budget battles have led us to where we are today. Really fantastic read that I recommend to anyone and everyone.
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- PrincessPeach
- 06-08-15
Wonderful Book - Exceptional Narration
Would you consider the audio edition of Command and Control to be better than the print version?
Yes. The narrator did not only "read" the book, but provided queues and emphasis that captured my attention and painted a much richer picture than I could have by just reading it.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
It was well rehearsed. You could tell the narrator knew the subject matter, at least to the extent to correctly pronounce everything and provide the necessary emphasis.
What does Scott Brick bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Good voice, pleasing tone, foreknowing the story to provide the proper emphasis and appropriate tone where needed.
What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?
How close we came and how luck continues to play-out.
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- Mark T
- 01-14-14
This is an AMAZING book - read it!
Would you listen to Command and Control again? Why?
I won't listen to it again. But I have bought the Kindle version so that I can study parts of it in more detail.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
It was a fascinating way of structuring the story, integrating "accident" chapters with "history" chapters. Took some getting used to, but it was an effective way to cover an enormous amount of material without getting bored.
What about Scott Brick’s performance did you like?
A very solid performance through the whole book. No odd changes in voice or silly pronunciation problems that I've seen crop up in many books.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
"Just Because You Were Lucky Doesn't Mean You Were Smart."
Any additional comments?
The story of the history of nuclear weapons is still very relevant today, albeit not in a Cold War context. But it's also very relevant in terms of how we should think about a range of highly complex technologies going forward. They may not have the potential to instantly level a city, but they pose risks that need to be thought about. This story makes that abundantly clear!
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