The 53
Rituals, Grief, and a Titan II Missile Disaster
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 27 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781793609762
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 b/w photos; 7 tables; 700
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Long description:
On August 9, 1965, 53 men died in the impoverished hills of rural Arkansas. Their final breaths came in a government facility deep underground while their loved ones were at home expecting their return. The incident at Launch Complex 373-4 remains the deadliest accident to occur in a U.S. nuclear facility. The 53: Rituals, Grief, and a Titan II Missile Disaster analyzes the event. It looks at causes but more importantly at how the mishap has affected daughters and sons for nearly six decades. It gives new sociological insight on technological disasters and the sorrow following them. The book also details how surviving family members managed themselves and each other while benefiting from the support of friends and strangers. It describes how institutions blame the powerless, and how powerful organizations generate distrust and secondary trauma. With an analysis of the event and post-disaster life, their children share stories on what went wrong and how they keep moving forward.
MoreTable of Contents:
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Meet the Titans
Chapter Two: The Titan II
Chapter Three: Sociology of Ritual
Chapter Four: Sociology of Disaster
Chapter Five: Sociology of Sorrow
Chapter Six: Research Approach
Chapter Seven: Disruption
Chapter Eight: Deritualization
Chapter Nine: Reritualization
Chapter Ten: Remembering the Titans
