Eric Schlosser - Command and Control

Common-mode failures, 464

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 469–70

Computers

computer-controlled weapons launch, 450–51, 467–68

ENIAC, 152

glitch and accidents, 475

Global Command and Control System, 474–75

hacking issue, 475

MANIAC and MANIAC II, 129, 152

Strategic Operational Control System (SOCS), 154

in warning system, 152–53

Whirlwind, 152–53

Concurrency practice, 219–20

Control boxes, 173, 246, 310–11, 440–41

Control center, Titan II, 26–27, 33, 428–29

Cooke, Christopher M., 444

Cookies, 27, 29

Coral Sea , 126

Cotter, Donald R., 263–64, 369–70

Cotton, Joseph W., Sergeant, 236

Counterforce strategy

and Bush (G. W.), 470, 483–84

damage limitation as, 434

missiles needed for, 302

renamed damage limitation, 434

of SAC leaders, 131, 133, 201, 267

Countervailing strategy, 364

Credit card, launch complex breakin with, 230–31

Creech, Wilbur L., General, 471–72

Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression (Casey), 14

Criss, Curtis R., Captain, 321–22

Crowder, Larry, 230–31

Cruise missiles, 376, 441

Cuban missile crisis, 12, 288–97, 462–63

Daghlian, Harry, 95

Daily shift verification (DSV), 29, 30–31

Damage limitation, 434

D’Amario, Alfred, Jr., Major, 320–21

Damascus, Arkansas, Titan II accident. See Titan II Launch Complex 374-7 accident

Dash-1, 11, 57

Davy Crockett, 256, 265, 268

Day After, The (film), 449, 451

Decontamination

after Titan II explosion, 390, 427–28

difficulty and plutonium, 317–18, 323–24

Defense Atomic Support Agency, 327, 464

Defense contractors, 100, 182, 199. See also Martin Marietta

Defense Improved Emergency Message Automatic Transmission System Replacement Command and Control Terminal (DIRECT), xx, 475

Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), 318, 370

Defense Readiness Condition (DEFCON), scale of, xx, 292–93, 358–59, 463

Defenses, U.S. military. See Strategic Air Command (SAC); U.S. military defenses

Delayed fallout, 139

Deliberate, Unauthorized Launch (DUL), xx, 450

Department of Energy, 370

Détente, 358, 364

Deterrence strategy

gradual, 200

minimum, 362–63, 483–84

psychological factors in, 124–25

rationale for, 11, 75

Deutch, John M., 483

Deuterium, 127, 128

Devil’s Alternative, The (Forsyth), 14

Devlin, Greg, Senior Airman

biographical information, 232–33

enters Titan II accident site, 240–42, 388–89

injury, treatment of, 402–3, 438–39

lawsuit by, 440

medical disability claim denied, 438–39

position of, xvi

Titan II explosion, 398–99, 401

DIRECT terminal, 475

Disarmament movement

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 188, 445

by Cold War era officials (2007– ), 481–83

minimum deterrence as alternative, 483–84

postatomic bomb, 74–75

U.S. support, lack of, 482–83

worldwide nature of, 445–46

Disaster Response Force

equipment, lack of, 420

members of, xvi, 399–400

tasks of, 107

Titan II accident response by, 107–8, 228, 395

Discoverer, 269

Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, xx, 151–53, 252

“Do Artifacts Have Politics?” (Winner), 464

Dobrynin, Anatoly, 289, 295

Dodson, Glenn A., Jr., 311–12

Dole, Robert, as Titan II opponent, 338, 385, 432

Dornberger, Walter, 182

Douglas, Paul H., 298

Douglas Aircraft, 182

Dower, John W., 44

Drell, Sidney, 455–56, 468, 482

Drell Panel on Nuclear Weapons Safety, 456, 470

Dr. Strangelove (film), 297–98, 304, 467

Drug use, by military personnel, 349–51

Dulles, John Foster, 132, 199–200

Dummy weapons, EOD unit practice, 417, 422–23

Ehlinger, Marvin J., 309–10

Einstein, Albert

nuclear weapons opposition by, 74, 124

on possibility of nuclear weapon, 37–38

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

bunker/shelter construction, 154–56

command-and-control dilemma, 158–59, 165, 206–7

defense policy, critics of, 176, 177, 199, 249–50

military experience of, 131

on military-industrial complex, 199

missile programs of, 182–83

national security policy of, 131–33, 140, 190, 200–207

NATO, nuclear weapons to, 183–84, 258, 260

nuclear test ban by, 198–99

Operation Alert (1955), 143–44

Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP), 202–7, 250, 252

Ellis, Larry, 393

Ellis, Richard H., General, 213, 384, 442

Elugelab island, 129, 136–37

Emergency Rocket Communications System, 273–74

Emery, David, 439

Empty Quiver, 327

Energy Research and Development Administration, 370

English, Richard L.

evacuation order by, 395

position of, xvi, 400, 420

rescue of injured by, 408, 410, 412–13

English, Richard L. (cont.)

at Titan II accident site, 399–400

warhead, search for, 420, 423–24

ENIAC, 152

Enola Gay , 51

Enthoven, Alain, 251

Enyu island, 137

Epperson, Lee, 115

ERASER, 84

Erb, Georg Otto, 160

Espionage

Soviet spies, 85, 127, 135, 465–66

Titan II breach, 444

“Evaluation of the Atomic Bomb as a Military Weapon,” 81–82

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)

equipment used by, 417

function of, xx, 261–62

Titan II accident response by, 422–23

training of, 415–18

F-89 Scorpions, 151

Fail safe, 190

Fail-Safe (film), 297

Fail-Safe Fallacy (Hook), 298

Farrell, Thomas F., Brigadier General, 37, 43–44

Fate of the Earth, The (Schell), 445

Fat Man (A-bomb), 52–54

Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA), xx, 142–43

Fermi, Enrico, 36, 40, 123

Field Instrument for the Detection of Low-Radiation Energy (FIDLER), 323

Fifth Horsemen, The (Collins and Lapierre), 14

Fissile materials, 39, 123

Fission, nuclear reaction, 38–39, 122

Flexible response, 200, 203, 250–51, 274, 355, 443

Ford, Daniel, 443

Forrestal, James, 76, 85, 86, 88

Forsyth, Frederick, 14

Foster, John S., Jr., 455–56

Fowler, Glenn, and Fowler Letter, 333–34, 369–70

France, nuclear weapons of, 288, 477

Franke, William B., 204

Freedom of Information Act, 465–66

Frisch, Otto, 43

Frost, Charles B., Second Lieutenant, and Titan II (533-7) accident, 339–40, 342–44

Fuchs, Klaus, 125, 135

Fuller, Ronald O., Staff Sergeant

abandoned at Titan II site, 420–21

evacuates Titan II site, 67–70

Titan II accident response by, 58, 60

Titan II assignment, xv, 8, 18–20, 30–31

Titan II explosion, 395–96

Gaither, H. Rowan, 177

Gamma meters, 417, 420

Gamma rays, 139

Gates, Thomas B., 251

Gaulle, Charles de, 279

Gavin, James M., General, 133

Gemini space flights, 227

General Assembly (UN), 74

General Dynamics Corporation, 182

General H. H. Arnold Special , 86

Genie, 161–66, 172, 292, 334, 376, 465

accident threat from, 162, 168, 376

military control of, 165

safety investigation (1955–56), 163–66

George (hydrogen bomb), 128–29

George, Peter, 189

Gilpatric, Roswell L., 298

Glenn, John H., 454

Glickman, Dan, 338

Global Command and Control System, 474–75

Global Positioning System (GPS), 442

Global Strike Command, 474

Godfrey, Arthur, 148–49, 156

Goldwater, Barry, 432