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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV After Words 20130930

Guest my interest in writing about Nuclear Weapons, the spark i spent time in the air force after i finished writing any book, and one of the officers told me a story of the damascus accident. He was in a Missile Launch. I thought it was an extraordinary story. I had never heard of it. I could not believe what happened. The more i learned about it, the more it seemed like it was a very good way to look at these larger themes about Nuclear Weapons. About our strategy for using them, and about our management of this them. Its a story in which a seemingly trivial event, someone drops a tool leads to a potential catastrophe. The dropping of the tool damages an intercontinental ballistic missile, creates a situation with the missile might explode. In this case, the missile has the most powerful
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