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Finished "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" by Eric Schlosser. This book was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History and for the Lionel Gelber Prize.
It is really two books interleaved, one about a near thermonuclear disaster at a ICBM site near Little Rock in 1980, and the other a history of U.S. planning and deployment for nuclear warfare. The first provided a human counterpoint to the other and made it very readable, much more so than the average history book.
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