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The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons by Scott Dou
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- Book Title
- The Limits of Safety
- ISBN
- 9780691021010
- Publication Name
- Limits of Safety : Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Series
- Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Ser.
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 15 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 302 Pages
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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 apparent 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.
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Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691021015
ISBN-13
9780691021010
eBay Product ID (ePID)
278741
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Limits of Safety : Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Ser.
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
302 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
15 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
53
Lc Classification Number
U264.3.S24 1995
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Grounded in original research in U.S. national security archives, [Limits of Safety] reveals a disturbing history of near-catastrophes in the handling of nuclear weapons and bombers. . . . This book is a significant contribution to . . . international security studies, organizational theory, and risk analysis. -- American Political Science Review, Scott Sagan's book is nothing less than a tour de force.... It is by far the most carefully researched and painstaking study of nuclear weapons safety ever written. -- Bruce G. Blair, Security Studies, "Sagan's stories also drive a wooden stake through the heart of rational choice nuclear deterrence theory. This book will make you scared ... will make you hold your children a little tighter at the end of the day." --Lee Clarke, Sociological Forum, "Grounded in original research in U.S. national security archives, [ Limits of Safety ] reveals a disturbing history of near-catastrophes in the handling of nuclear weapons and bombers. . . . This book is a significant contribution to . . . international security studies, organizational theory, and risk analysis."-- American Political Science Review, "Sagan shows, both explicitly for nuclear weapons and implicitly for intellectual systems, that neither learning nor disasters are essentially matters of improving O-rings, safety procedures, or t -tests, as participants within those systems would like to believe. The primary adaptive action is offstage--in the background framework itself. And at that level, through sheer volume of its data, Sagan's book will shape the way that policymakers and we (with a little less confidence) understand the nuclear world."-- Contemporary Sociology, "Scott Sagan's book is nothing less than a tour de force.... It is by far the most carefully researched and painstaking study of nuclear weapons safety ever written." --Bruce G. Blair, Security Studies, Grounded in original research in U.S. national security archives, [Limits of Safety] reveals a disturbing history of near-catastrophes in the handling of nuclear weapons and bombers. . . . This book is a significant contribution to . . . international security studies, organizational theory, and risk analysis., "Scott Sagan's book is nothing less than a tour de force.... It is by far the most carefully researched and painstaking study of nuclear weapons safety ever written."-- Bruce G. Blair, Security Studies, Grounded in original research in U.S. national security archives, [ Limits of Safety ] reveals a disturbing history of near-catastrophes in the handling of nuclear weapons and bombers. . . . This book is a significant contribution to . . . international security studies, organizational theory, and risk analysis. -- American Political Science Review, Sagan shows, both explicitly for nuclear weapons and implicitly for intellectual systems, that neither learning nor disasters are essentially matters of improving O-rings, safety procedures, or t -tests, as participants within those systems would like to believe. The primary adaptive action is offstage--in the background framework itself. And at that level, through sheer volume of its data, Sagan's book will shape the way that policymakers and we (with a little less confidence) understand the nuclear world., 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 to maturity., Sagan shows, both explicitly for nuclear weapons and implicitly for intellectual systems, that neither learning nor disasters are essentially matters of improving O-rings, safety procedures, ort-tests, as participants within those systems would like to believe. The primary adaptive action is offstage--in the background framework itself. And at that level, through sheer volume of its data, Sagan's book will shape the way that policymakers and we (with a little less confidence) understand the nuclear world. -- Contemporary Sociology, "Sagan's stories also drive a wooden stake through the heart of rational choice nuclear deterrence theory. This book will make you scared ... will make you hold your children a little tighter at the end of the day."-- Lee Clarke, Sociological Forum, "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 to maturity."-- Charles Perrow, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 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 to maturity. -- Charles Perrow, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, "Sagan shows, both explicitly for nuclear weapons and implicitly for intellectual systems, that neither learning nor disasters are essentially matters of improving O-rings, safety procedures, or t -tests, as participants within those systems would like to believe. The primary adaptive action is offstage--in the background framework itself. And at that level, through sheer volume of its data, Sagan's book will shape the way that policymakers and we (with a little less confidence) understand the nuclear world." -- Contemporary Sociology, Sagan's stories also drive a wooden stake through the heart of rational choice nuclear deterrence theory. This book will make you scared ... will make you hold your children a little tighter at the end of the day. -- Lee Clarke, Sociological Forum, Winner of the 1993 Best Book Award, Science, Technology, and Environmental Studies Section of the American Political Science Association, Sagan's stories also drive a wooden stake through the heart of rational choice nuclear deterrence theory. This book will make you scared ... will make you hold your children a little tighter at the end of the day., "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 to maturity." --Charles Perrow, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, "Grounded in original research in U.S. national security archives, [ Limits of Safety ] reveals a disturbing history of near-catastrophes in the handling of nuclear weapons and bombers. . . . This book is a significant contribution to . . . international security studies, organizational theory, and risk analysis." -- American Political Science Review, Scott Sagan's book is nothing less than a tour de force.... It is by far the most carefully researched and painstaking study of nuclear weapons safety ever written., Grounded in original research in U.S. national security archives, [ Limits of Safety ] reveals a disturbing history of near-catastrophes in the handling of nuclear weapons and bombers. . . . This book is a significant contribution to . . . international security studies, organizational theory, and risk analysis., Sagan shows, both explicitly for nuclear weapons and implicitly for intellectual systems, that neither learning nor disasters are essentially matters of improving O-rings, safety procedures, or t-tests, as participants within those systems would like to believe. The primary adaptive action is offstage--in the background framework itself. And at that level, through sheer volume of its data, Sagan's book will shape the way that policymakers and we (with a little less confidence) understand the nuclear world., Sagan shows, both explicitly for nuclear weapons and implicitly for intellectual systems, that neither learning nor disasters are essentially matters of improving O-rings, safety procedures, or t -tests, as participants within those systems would like to believe. The primary adaptive action is offstage--in the background framework itself. And at that level, through sheer volume of its data, Sagan's book will shape the way that policymakers and we (with a little less confidence) understand the nuclear world. -- Contemporary Sociology
Table of Content
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction: Expecting the Unexpected 3 Ch. 1 The Origins of Accidents 11 Ch. 2 Nuclear Weapons Safety during the Cuban Missile Crisis 53 Ch. 3 Intelligence and Warning during the Cuban Missile Crisis 117 Ch. 4 Redundancy and Reliability: The 1968 Thule Bomber Accident 156 Ch. 5 Learning by Trial and Terror 204 Ch. 6 The Limits of Safety 250 Index 281
Copyright Date
1993
Topic
Military / Nuclear Warfare, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other)
Lccn
93-012196
Intended Audience
College Audience
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Yes
Genre
History
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