**The book:***Command and Control* by Eric Schlosser (Penguin Press, $36; available Sept 17)

**What it’s about:** Schlosser, author of the blockbuster *Fast Food Nation*, examines the underbelly of another disturbing American industry—the care and management of the nation’s nuclear weapons—focusing on a missile silo mishap that plays out like a thriller.

**How it will enrich your mind and soul:** Staring into the secretive realm of this arsenal and the human error that will always threaten its stability, you’ll face a hard truth about our attempts to contain impending disaster.

Fall nonfiction titles and mindless cat pictures

We preview some meaty texts—and pair them with silly feline tomes to help the medicine go down.

Wednesday September 4 2013

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