Lethal arrogance : human fallibility and dangerous technologies /
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| Author / Creator: | Dumas, Lloyd J. |
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| Imprint: | New York : St. Martin's Press, c1999. |
| Description: | xi, 372 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4243536 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part I. Threatening Ourselves
- Prologue: Will Twentieth-Century Incidents Become Twenty-First-Century Nightmares?
- Chapter 1. Technology, Human Fallibility and Survival
- Part II. What Could Happen?
- Chapter 2. Terrorism and Dangerous Technologies
- Chapter 3. Controlling Dangerous Inventories
- Chapter 4. Accidents
- Appendix. Major Nuclear Weapons-Related Accidents
- Chapter 5. Holocaust by Accident: Inadvertent War with Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Part III. Why it Can Happen Here: the Many Sides of Human Fallibility
- Chapter 6. The Fallibility of Individuals: Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Illness
- Chapter 7. The Fallibility of Individuals: The Nature and Conditions of Life and Work
- Chapter 8. Bureaucracy, Groupthink and Cults
- Part IV. Why Improving Technology Won't Save Us
- Chapter 9. The Failure of Technical Systems
- Chapter 10. Computers and the Technological Fix
- Part V. What Can and Must be Done
- Chapter 11. Understanding and Assessing Risk
- Chapter 12. Preventing Disaster
- Notes
- Index