Investigative Journalist Finds America’s Nuclear Missiles In Need Of TLC

The US military still acknowledges having about 4,800 nuclear weapons, but a journalist finds need for improvement in the people, systems and equipment that maintain them.

The book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, is the distillation of six years work by Eric Schlosser and focuses a lot on the way good intentions aren’t enough.

“In the last few years, there have been some remarkable scandals in the Air Force with launch officers being caught using illegal drugs, cheating on exams.”60 Minutes” did a very powerful segment on the aging equipment in our Minuteman silos, computers using 9-inch floppy discs, doors that won’t close, and this is a recipe for disaster.”

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