Synopsis

Engineering failures can have devastating consequences, frequently measured in human lives, as illustrated by these accounts of disaster. Why did the Tower of Pisa begin its alarming tilt, reaching a staggering seventeen feet? What triggered the first nuclear accident in 1961, located in Idaho? What caused the deaths of three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11, the world’s pioneering orbiting space station? How was the Air Force's Texas Tower Radar Station obliterated by a winter storm, claiming twenty-