The Limits Of Safety

Author : Scott Douglas Sagan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691213064

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The Limits of Safety by Scott Douglas Sagan Pdf

Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a world full of hazardous technologies. Yet, the apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear arsenals can serve as a secure deterrent for the foreseeable future. In this provocative book, Scott Sagan challenges such optimism. Sagan's research into formerly classified archives penetrates the veil of safety that has surrounded U.S. nuclear weapons and reveals a hidden history of frightening "close calls" to disaster.

Author : Vipin Narang,Scott D. Sagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 150176716X

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The Fragile Balance of Terror by Vipin Narang,Scott D. Sagan Pdf

In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the world?a volatile mix of variables. The increasing fragility of deterrence in the twenty-first century is created by a confluence of forces: military technologies that create vulnerable arsenals, a novel information ecosystem that rapidly transmits both information and misinformation, nuclear rivalries that include three or more nuclear powers, and dictatorial decision making that encourages rash choices. The nuclear threats posed by India, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea are thus fraught with danger. The Fragile Balance of Terror, edited by Vipin Narang and Scott D. Sagan, brings together a diverse collection of rigorous and creative scholars who analyze how the nuclear landscape is changing for the worse. Scholars, pundits, and policymakers who think that the spread of nuclear weapons can create stable forms of nuclear deterrence in the future will be forced to think again. Contributors: Giles David Arceneaux, Mark S. Bell, Christopher Clary, Peter D. Feaver, Jeffrey Lewis, Rose McDermott, Nicholas L. Miller, Vipin Narang, Ankit Panda, Scott D. Sagan, Caitlin Talmadge, Heather Williams, Amy Zegart

Author : Charles Perrow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 140082849X

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Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow Pdf

Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk--complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling--this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them. The first edition fulfilled one reviewer's prediction that it "may mark the beginning of accident research." In the new afterword to this edition Perrow reviews the extensive work on the major accidents of the last fifteen years, including Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Challenger disaster. The new postscript probes what the author considers to be the "quintessential 'Normal Accident'" of our time: the Y2K computer problem.

Author : Sandra Dawson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521354978

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Safety at Work by Sandra Dawson Pdf

Examines the effect of the Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974.

Author : Scott Douglas Sagan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0691023263

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Moving Targets by Scott Douglas Sagan Pdf

Shows how targeting decisions have reflected the judgments of various American administrations on what will and won't deter a nuclear attack.

Author : Gianni Petrangeli
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080460789

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Nuclear Safety by Gianni Petrangeli Pdf

Nuclear Safety provides the methods and data needed to evaluate and manage the safety of nuclear facilities and related processes using risk-based safety analysis, and provides readers with the techniques to assess the consequences of radioactive releases. The book covers relevant international and regional safety criteria (US, IAEA, EUR, PUN, URD, INI). The contents deal with each of the critical components of a nuclear plant, and provide an analysis of the risks arising from a variety of sources, including earthquakes, tornadoes, external impact and human factors. It also deals with the safety of underground nuclear testing and the handling of radioactive waste. Covers all plant components and potential sources of risk including human, technical and natural factors. Brings together information on nuclear safety for which the reader would previously have to consult many different and expensive sources. Provides international design and safety criteria and an overview of regulatory regimes.

Author : Mark Bell, (re,Mark S. Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1501754165

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Nuclear Reactions by Mark Bell, (re,Mark S. Bell Pdf

Nuclear Reactions analyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects on the foreign policies of different countries. Mark S. Bell argues that nuclear weapons are useful for more than just deterrence. Instead, they are leveraged to pursue a wide range of goals in international politics, and the nations that acquire them significantly change their foreign policies as a result. Bell closely examines how these effects vary and what those variations have meant, in the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. Countries aren't generically "emboldened"--they change their foreign policies in different ways based on what their priorities are. This has huge policy implications: what would Iran do if it were to get nuclear weapons? Would Japanese policy toward the United States change if it were to acquire nuclear weapons? And what does the looming threat of nuclear weapons mean for the future of foreign policy? Far from being a relic of the Cold War, Bell argues, nuclear weapons are just as important in international politics today as they ever were.

Author : Dr Loukia D Loukopoulos,Mr Benjamin A Berman,Dr R Key Dismukes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781409484981

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The Limits of Expertise by Dr Loukia D Loukopoulos,Mr Benjamin A Berman,Dr R Key Dismukes Pdf

The Limits of Expertise reports a study of the 19 major U.S. airline accidents from 1991-2000 in which the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found crew error to be a causal factor. Each accident is reported in a separate chapter that examines events and crew actions and explores the cognitive processes in play at each step.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : IND:30000036867947

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Beyond the Limits by Anonim Pdf

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788107496

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Beyond the Limits by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Promotes more effective enforcement of laws and regulations governing all posted speed limits, builds public support for traffic laws, and hopes to change unsafe driving behavior. 23 appendices include: glossary, training modules, new technology, sample programs in various states, photo radar, drone radar and much more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : NYPL:33433031963188

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Code of Federal Regulations by Anonim Pdf

Author : IAEA
Publisher : International Atomic Energy Agency
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789201004239

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Operational Limits and Conditions and Operating Procedures for Research Reactors by IAEA Pdf

This Safety Guide is a revision of IAEA Safety Standards Series No. NS-G-4.4, which it supersedes. The revised version provides specific recommendations on developing, formulating and presenting the operational limits and conditions as well as the operating procedures for research reactors, to meet the relevant requirements of IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSR-3, Safety of Research Reactors. The recommendations in this publication are intended for use by operating organizations of research reactors, regulatory bodies and other relevant organizations involved in a research reactor project.

Author : Scott D. Sagan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804772419

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Inside Nuclear South Asia by Scott D. Sagan Pdf

Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947. They went to the brink of a fourth in 2001 following an attack on the Indian parliament, which the Indian government blamed on the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist organizations. Despite some attempts at rapprochement in the intervening years, a new standoff between the two countries was precipitated when India accused Lashkar-e-Taiba of being behind the Mumbai attacks late last year. The relentlessness of the confrontations between these two nations makes Inside Nuclear South Asia a must read for anyone wishing to gain a thorough understanding of the spread of nuclear weapons in South Asia and the potential consequences of nuclear proliferation on the subcontinent. The book begins with an analysis of the factors that led to India's decision to cross the nuclear threshold in 1998, with Pakistan close behind: factors such as the broad political support for a nuclear weapons program within India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the intense rivalry between the two countries, the normative and prestige factors that influenced their behaviors, and ultimately the perceived threat to their respective national security. The second half of the book analyzes the consequences of nuclear proliferation on the subcontinent. These chapters show that the presence of nuclear weapons in South Asia has increased the frequency and propensity of low-level violence, further destabilizing the region. Additionally, nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan have led to serious political changes that also challenge the ability of the two states to produce stable nuclear détente. Thus, this book provides both new insights into the domestic politics behind specific nuclear policy choices in South Asia, a critique of narrow realist views of nuclear proliferation, and the dangers of nuclear proliferation in South Asia.

Author : Leland Jerome Nitteberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Nuclear reactors
ISBN : UOM:39015086453670

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Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor Operating Safety Limits by Leland Jerome Nitteberg Pdf

Author : IAEA
Publisher : International Atomic Energy Agency
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789201241221

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Operational Limits and Conditions and Operating Procedures for Nuclear Power Plants by IAEA Pdf

The recommendations provided in this Safety Guide are aimed primarily at operating organizations of nuclear power plants and regulatory bodies. It covers the concept of operational limits and conditions (OLCs), their content as applicable to nuclear power plants, and the responsibilities of the operating organization for their establishment, modification, compliance and documentation. Operating procedures (including emergency operating procedures and severe accident management guidelines) to support the implementation of the OLCs and to ensure their observance are also within the scope of this Safety Guide.