Eric Schlosser (Get this book) The chilling, concise history of America's precarious nuclear arsenal. Investigative journalist Schlosser's vivid and unsettling treatise spreads across a 70-year span of the development and control of nuclear weaponry. At the core of the author's scrutiny is the suspensefully narrated back story of the Arkansas-based Titan II military missile silo. A disastrous mishap in 1980 involving an accidentally punctured fuel tank caused a near-detonation and collapse of the missile, killing a young repairman and sparking an investigation into the hazardous nature of all military nuclear armaments. An exhaustive, unnerving examination of the illusory safety of atomic arms--Kirkus
