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Beyond the terror factor, the book is a fantastic history of technological development, and how a system of systems evolved to cope with additional failure states. I think it's worth reading and thinking about for anyone working in a technical field.

I got the book from a HN comment recommendation a few years ago, now I keep recommending myself for anything accidents :-)

I came to recommend this book as well. The book is simultaneously fascinating and terrifying.

Read "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a nuclear war planner" for a round two.

Fred Kaplan's book "The Bomb" is a good read too, haven't read doomsday machine but they sound similar.

Ditto for "Command and Control". Good read, very terrifying how much lack of control there was/is.

I can recommend "Raven Rock" as another good read. How very rational people and be totally irrational. Living near Raven Rock and Camp David for over 50 years, we always assumed that if the missiles started flying, we be toast in a nuclear wasteland.