In his new book, “Command and Control,” investigative journalist Eric Schlosser looks at the safety of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and focuses on one alarming incident in particular: the accidental explosion of a Titan II missile in Arkansas in 1980. How secure are America’s stored nuclear warheads? Schlosser, author of the 2001 bestseller Fast Food Nation, joins us in the studio.
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