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Whole World on Fire focuses on a technical riddle wrapped in an organizational mystery: How and why, for more than half a century, did the U.S. government fail to predict nuclear fire damage as it drew up plans to fight strategic nuclear war? U.S...



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This investigation leads Eden into the more arcane and unsettling aspects of nuclear planning, and students of this area will find in her book much fascinating detail. More broadly, however, she seeks to demonstrate how institutional knowledge often leaves out critical facts—leading to disaster when incomplete information becomes the basis for action.

* Foreign Affairs 83:1 *

Whole World on Fire is thoroughly researched and well documented.... Eden... reminds us of the importance of applying critical thinking to solving problems.

-- Lt. Col. Charles E. Costanzo, Ph.D., USAF, Ret., Maxwell AFB, Alabama * Air and Space Power Journal *

Whole World on Fire Organizations Knowledge and Nuclear Weapons Devastation

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 11/21/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780801435782
      978-0801435782
      ISBN-10 0801435781
      Also in:
      Nuclear weapons Sociology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Whole World on Fire focuses on a technical riddle wrapped in an organizational mystery: How and why, for more than half a century, did the U.S. government fail to predict nuclear fire damage as it drew up plans to fight strategic nuclear war? U.S...



      Trade Review

      This investigation leads Eden into the more arcane and unsettling aspects of nuclear planning, and students of this area will find in her book much fascinating detail. More broadly, however, she seeks to demonstrate how institutional knowledge often leaves out critical facts—leading to disaster when incomplete information becomes the basis for action.

      * Foreign Affairs 83:1 *

      Whole World on Fire is thoroughly researched and well documented.... Eden... reminds us of the importance of applying critical thinking to solving problems.

      -- Lt. Col. Charles E. Costanzo, Ph.D., USAF, Ret., Maxwell AFB, Alabama * Air and Space Power Journal *

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