In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
Includes accidents such as the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant partial core meltdown, Hyatt Regency Skywalk collapse, Union Carbide Chemical Plant leak, Chernobyl Nuclear Plant explosion, and the Exxon oil spill.
Describes the development and early flights of airships and the disastrous explosion of the passenger airship, Hindenberg, at a New Jersey airfield on May 6, 1937, in which thirty-six people were killed.
This title in the Scientific American mysteries of science series presents some spectacular engineering failures and what was learned in their aftermath.
