Blessèd Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas Horses And the consequence of misplaced

And the consequence of misplaced trust can turn deadly in the blink of an eye

and he chronicles his professional ups and downs

As well as stories and superstitions

He speaks as a free man and of his own free will - there are no charges against him

Interrupted column in The New York TimesONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review

Blessèd Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas Horses And the consequence of misplacedIn 1982, with Cold War anxieties running high, A. G. Mojtabai set out for Amarillo, Texas, home of Pantex, the final assembly plant for all nuclear weapons in the United States. Through the lens of this particular city, she sought to focus on our adaptation as a nation to the threat of nuclear war. Her interviews began with Pantex workers assured of both the necessity and the safety of the work that they did, and in the steady, beneficent, advance of