1. Understanding big accidents

2. NASA's failing grade

3. The blame game

4. Accidents: Normal?

5. Holey-headed reactor

Related Why Files
When good spaceships go bad.

Does manned space travel make sense?

Science aboard Columbia.

Probing composite materials.

Missile defense mistakes?

Exxon Valdez aftermath.

Understanding plane crashes.

Forensics in the crime lab

Health in space.

Paper
NASA Boss Rejects Call to Fix Blame for Shuttle, Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2003.

The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA, Diane Vaughan, 1996, University of Chicago Press.

Normal Accidents: Living with High-risk Technologies, Charles Perrow. Princeton University Press, 1999.

Nothing Recedes Like Success? William Freudenburg, Risk Analysis and the Organizational Amplification of Risks, Risk: Issues in Health and Safety, Winter, 1992.

Small Things Considered, Henry Petroski, HarperCollins, 2003 (the design of everyday things).

Electronic
The tragedy that forever marks Bhopal, India.

NASA's self-defense.

Apollo 13.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission on reactor safety.

Toledo Blade reports on failures at the Davis-Besse power plant.

The Society for Risk Analysis.

Space Policy Project on space shuttle Challenger.

These credits are no accident!

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