Normal Accidents : Living with High Risk Technologies

Abnormal Blessings vii Introduction 3(12) 1. Normal Accident at Three Mile Island 15(17) 2. Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs--But Will Soon 32(30) 3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe 62(39) 4. Petrochemical Plants 101(22) 5. Aircraft and Airways 123(47) 6. Marine Accidents 170(62) 7. Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes 232(24) 8. Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA 256(48) 9. Living with High-Risk Systems 304(49) Afterword 353(35) Postscript: The Y2K Problem 388(25) List of Acronyms 413(2) Notes 415(11) Bibliography 426(15) Index 441