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Laddar... The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weaponsav Scott Douglas Sagan
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Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a world full of hazardous technologies. Yet, the apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear arsenals can serve as a secure deterrent for the foreseeable future. In this provocative book, Scott Sagan challenges such optimism. Sagan's research into formerly classified archives penetrates the veil of safety that has surrounded U.S. nuclear weapons and reveals a hidden history of frightening "close calls" to disaster. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Sagan's basic premise is that as systems get more complex, they get more difficult for human beings to effectively manage. The United States' nuclear weapons arsenal is one of the most complex systems in the world. Because of its complexity there are many supposedly fail-safe measures that are built into the system to prevent an accident from occurring, which only makes the system even more complex. As complexity rises so does the possibility of unintended consequences occurring as parts of the system interact in ways that the designers simply could not foresee.
Furthermore, some research in organizational theory strongly indicates that even if it were possible to design a "fail-safe" system, the need to have humans interacting with that system means that you can never eradicate all accidents and errors from occurring. Sagan more than adequately points out what the consequences of these revelations are for the maintenance of such a large nuclear arsenal as the United States and Russia currently have. ( )