In this eye-opening book, author Lloyd J. Dumas argues that our capacity for developing ever more powerful technologies and the unavoidable fallibility of both machine and man will lead us towards a disaster of an unprecedented scale.
· Extensive footnotes are provided to support facts and figures contained in the text
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From 1975–1990, more than 66,000 people in the U.S. military were permanently relieved of their duties involving nuclear weapons—jobs they had already been performing—because they were judged unreliable. On average, there has one or more nuclear weapons-related accident every seven months for the past 60 years. How safe do you feel?
Lloyd J. Dumas is a social scientist and engineer.
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