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20%OFFScott Douglas Sagan - The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons - 9780691021010 - V9780691021010
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The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons

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Description for The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons Paperback. The apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear arsenals can serve as a secure deterrent for the foreseeable future. This book challenges such optimism. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 302 pages, 8 figs. 5 tables. BIC Classification: GTJ; JWMN; RNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a world full of hazardous technologies. Yet, the apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear arsenals can serve as a secure deterrent for the foreseeable future. In this provocative book, Scott Sagan challenges such optimism. Sagan's research into formerly classified archives penetrates the veil of safety that has surrounded U.S. nuclear weapons and reveals a hidden history of frightening "close calls" to disaster.

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Series
Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
Condition
New
Weight
464g
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691021010
SKU
V9780691021010
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Scott Douglas Sagan
Scott D. Sagan, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, is the author of Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security (Princeton).

Reviews for The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
Winner of the 1993 Best Book Award, Science, Technology, and Environmental Studies Section of the American Political Science Association "An extraordinary book... Normal accidents theory and high reliability theory took the theory of accidents out of the hands of economists and engineers and put it into the hands of organization theorists; Sagan has brought that theory of accidents much closer ... Read more

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