It was hard to find the time and headspace to do a lot of reading this year (for obvious reasons), but I did manage to read a few good books. Here are some of my favorites.
My favorite books of 2020
Reading
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Contingency and the Cold War
I recently read the 2013 book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, a well-sourced account of the Cold War by the journalist Eric Schlosser. The book makes it clear what a miracle it is that humanity survived the Cold War intact. Here are some weird and terrifying facts I learned:
- There were several