#15 in History
Command and Control
- 656
- Pages
- about 12 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list
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About the book
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety is a 2013 nonfiction book by Eric Schlosser about the history of nuclear weapons systems and accidents involving nuclear weapons in the United States. Incidents Schlosser discusses in the book include the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion, the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash, and the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash. It was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History. A documentary film based on the book aired as an episode of American Experience on PBS in early 2017.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 89 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 38% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the History average of 8.0. That is how 8.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 11 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 78 | 88% |
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It has 656 pages — longer than 78% of the ranked books in History.
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