The Limits of Safety
Organizations, Accidents and Nuclear Weapons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9823845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eliot A Cohen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 155 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons, Scott D Sagan, 1993 |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20045733 |
| OpenAlex | W2109781560 |
| Language | EN |
1The Origins of Accidents11Ch. 2Nuclear Weapons Safety during the Cuban Missile Crisis53Ch. 3Intelligence and Warning during the Cuban Missile Crisis117Ch. 4Redundancy and Reliability: The 1968 Thule Bomber Accident156Ch. 5Learning by Trial and Terror204Ch. 6The Limits of Safety250Index281
Business · Computer security · Nuclear weapon · Political science · Computer Science · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense
Social Organization and Risk
World Politics at the Edge of Chaos
Normal Risk
Tale taming radioactive fears
Verwaltung und Versagen
The Social Construction of Nuclear Community
Blaming Deadmen
Operating as Experimenting
Fixing the Blame
Possibilistic Thinking
The Case of Case Study Research in Europe
Measuring Cybersecurity and Cyber Resiliency
The Politics of Crisis Management
The myopia of learning
Organizational resilience
The Crisis Approach
New Perspectives on Resilience in Socio-Economic Spheres
Man-Made Disasters 20 years later
Accountability, organisational learning and risks to patient safety in England
Schlüsselwerke der Organisationsforschung
On the Brink
Climate Change Denial and Public Relations
Israel and Iran
Am Ende der Globalisierung
Innovation, Learning, and Policy Evolution in Hazardous Systems
Nyliberalisme, finanskrise og håndtering av risiko
The Politics of Crisis Management
Histoire des techniques et sociologie de la connaissance
Reconciling garbage cans and rational actors
Nuclear time
Risking “The Destruction of Nations
Neorealism's status‐quo bias
Nuclear weapons as a Faustian bargain
The Politics of Inadvertence
Proliferation Optimism and Theories of Nuclear Operations
Less is more
The Perils of Proliferation in South Asia
In Search of Co‐variance, Causal Mechanisms or Congruence? Towards a Plural Understanding of Case Studies
Qualitative Research
Crises and Crisis Management
The nuclear Waltz
War under transnational surveillance
Nuclear non-use
Integrating Levels of Analysis in World Politics
Examining decision errors in child protection
Developing Design Propositions through Research Synthesis
Blindsided? September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise
The Madman Nuclear Alert
Nuclear Deterrence Theory, Nuclear Proliferation, and National Missile Defense
Posturing for Peace? Pakistan's Nuclear Postures and South Asian Stability
The Perils of Proliferation
Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons? Three Models in Search of a Bomb
September 11 and the Adaptation Failure of U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Don't Come Home, America
The End of MAD? The Nuclear Dimension of U.S. Primacy
Debating American Engagement
Illicit Activity and Proliferation
Is Strategy an Illusion
The New Era of Counterforce
A Model Disagreement
Exploding the Powder Keg Myth
Proliferation Pessimism and Emerging Nuclear Powers
India's Counterforce Temptations
The Commitment Trap
Military Culture and Inadvertent Escalation in World War II
Deterrence and regional conflict
The case against nuclear abolition and for nuclear deterrence
Nuclear weapons in South Asia
Learning in Organizations and Public Policy
The History of Proliferation Optimism
Figuring out fighting organisations
The second nuclear age
Institution and airpower
Professionalization and suicidal defence planning by the Irish army, 1921–1941
Learning Disabilities for Regulators
India's Nuclear Doctrine and Command Structure
Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination
How to Hunt a Very Reliable Organization
The Transformation of Policy Ideas
A Strategic Theory of Bureaucratic Redundancy
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons and International Conflict
Evaluating the Nuclear Peace Hypothesis
Social Scientific Analysis of Nuclear Weapons
Nasty or Nice
The Determinants of Nuclear Force Structure
What’s Fair in International Politics? Equity, Equality, and Foreign Policy Attitudes
What Does It Take to Deter? Regional Power Nuclear Postures and International Conflict
The Unforeseen Consequences of Extended Deterrence
The Perils of Predicting Proliferation
A Strategic Approach to Nuclear Proliferation
Nuclear Taboo And War Initiation in Regional Conflicts
The Army You Have
Managing Nuclear Proliferation
Prospect Theory and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Realism in the Study of World Politics
What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge
Nuclear Brinkmanship, Limited War, and Military Power
The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline
Nuclear Superiority and the Balance of Resolve
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