U.S. Nuclear WeaponsChuck Hansen
U.S. Nuclear Weapons
The Secret History
by Chuck Hansen · first published 1988
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…then as download). Hansen's widow used to sell it after his death but she is no longer responding to sales requests. Or at least mine was ignored early this year. You can find it on Library Genesis. U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History is sadly missing from LibGen, but it appears to be available as a digital checkout from the Internet Archive. It's a good companion book to Swords because it went through a professional…
on “The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb” ↗…mostly reading blogs, declassified primary sources, and publications from open source intelligence. Two somewhat lesser known books I recommend if you are looking for details more than broad history are U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History and The Swords of Armageddon, both by Chuck Hansen. Both are currently out of print. The latter can be found on Library Genesis. I scanned The Secret History about 10 years ago and…
on “Revisiting the “Tsar Bomba” nuclear test” ↗…complex systems, the limited efficacy of administration, and the inherent failings of human effort. Sort of the mirror-book to Scarry's, but also utterly fascinating. It's a history of disasters of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, and in an effort as huge as that, the disasters certainly exist at scale. (Interestingly, Scarry's book centers on the importance of governance in a nuclear state, or perhaps that democratic…
on “Ask HN: Literature on crisis response?” ↗Just searched for Hansen's book on Amazon. The only one available was 'U.S. Nuclear Weapons the Secret History'. Steep price, $159 for a used copy.
on “The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb” ↗…weapons subreddit, particularly posts on it authored by Alex Wellerstein, Carey Sublette, and a few others whose names currently escape me: https://old.reddit.com/r/nuclearweapons/ Chuck Hansen's book "U.S Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History" (out of print, sadly; will have to pay $$$ or find a scanned pirate copy) and his massive book/PDF "The Swords of Armageddon" available for purchase here: http://www.uscoldwar.com/
on “United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency” ↗This is the fourth among the U.S. nuclear weapons institutions that I've read is in trouble, going back several years: 1) Air Force ICBM launch operations: The General in charge had a serious drinking problem (consider that for a moment), to the extent…
on “Troubled covert agency responsible for trucking nuclear bombs across America” ↗