Author of Command and Control and several NY-er articles described by [More] link at end of article. The site has several related articles

WORLD WAR THREE, BY MISTAKE
Harsh political rhetoric, combined with the vulnerability of the nuclear command-and-control system, has made the risk of global catastrophe greater than ever.
By Eric Schlosser December 23, 2016

Here.

Conventional weapons can now be employed to destroy every kind of military target, and twenty-first-century warfare puts an emphasis on precision strikes, cyberweapons, and minimizing civilian casualties. As a technology, nuclear weapons have become obsolete. What worries me most isn’t the possibility of a cyberattack, a technical glitch, or a misunderstanding starting a nuclear war sometime next week. My greatest concern is the lack of public awareness about this existential threat, the absence of a vigorous public debate about the nuclear-war plans of Russia and the United States, the silent consent to the roughly fifteen thousand nuclear weapons in the world. These machines have been carefully and ingeniously designed to kill us. Complacency increases the odds that, some day, they will. The “Titanic Effect” is a term used by software designers to explain how things can quietly go wrong in a complex technological system: the safer you assume the system to be, the more dangerous it is becoming.

Mixing-in a Drumpfish wild-card, with the instability of Putin (and now the First Act by new congress: abolition of any means for ethical oversight!) surely makes 2017 one of the most portentous of the genre annus horribilis EVAH...

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May have to be baptized as Murican, then;
Guess I'll cease to think and read
Watch Tee Vee and go to seed

A bit of doggerel from time of Newton Minnow's magnificent label of Tee Vee, early on:
A vast wasteland..

ED: also this, from Democracy Now: Obama Urged to Take U.S. Nukes Off High Alert Before Trump Takes Office