Whole World on Fire

"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?" "Whole World on Fire shows how well-funded and highly professional organizations, by focusing on what they do well and systematically excluding what they don't do well, may build a poor representation of the world - a self-reinforcing fallacy that can have serious consequences. In a sweeping conclusion, Eden shows the implications of this analysis for understanding such things as the sinking of the Titanic, the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and the poor fireproofing in the World Trade Center."--Jacket.

First sentence: Imagine a powerful strategic nuclear weapon detonated above the Pentagon, a short distance from the center of Washington, D.C.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Editions

3

Pages

384

ISBN

9780801472893

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