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Subject:Re: failed tech comm thread From:Mike Keene <mkeene -at- UTKVX -dot- UTK -dot- EDU> Date:Wed, 21 Jun 1995 09:16:33 -0400
Tammy,
There's quite a literature on this, especially with reference to the
Challenger disaster. Look up Dorothy Winsor's work in your favorite
index, for starters. Her bibliographies will also lead you to similar
work on the role of tech comm failures at Three Mile Island and
Chernobyl. Not pleasant reading, and all pretty much still being debated
in some circles, but it may serve your purposes.
