Whole World On Fire: Organizations, Knowledge And Nuclear Weapons Devastation

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 Us Government Fail To Predict Nuclear Fire Damage As It Drew Up Plans To Fight Strategic Nuclear War? The Book 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, The Author 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.(Published In Collaboration With Cornell University Press, Usa)