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    Occasion... For Disaster
    Occasion... For Disaster
    Occasion... For Disaster
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    Occasion... For Disaster

    By Gordon Randall Garrett

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    A very small slip, at just the wrong place, can devastate any enterprise. One tiny transistor can go wrong ... and ruin a multi-million dollar missile. Which would be one way to stop the missiles.... (reprinted in 1963 as "Supermind".)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateJun 13, 2014
    ISBN9781633552951
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