Inviting Disaster

James R. Chiles began writing about technology and history while a student at the University of Texas Law School. His first piece was a 1979 Texas Monthly article on the Pantex nuclear weapons assembly plant in Amarillo, Texas. He began writing features for Smithsonian in 1983, and since that time has published features and cover stories there and in Audubon, Air and Space, Harvard magazine, and American Heritage of Invention and Technology. He lives in MinnesotaChiles, James R. is the author of 'Inviting Disaster' with ISBN 9780066620817 and ISBN 0066620813.