Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster - Paperbackby Lee Clarke (Author) How does the government or a business plan for an unimaginable disaster a meltdown at a nuclear power plant, a gigantic oil spill, or a nuclear attack? Lee Clarke examines actual attempts to "prepare" for these catastrophes and finds that the policies adopted by corporations and government agencies are fundamentally rhetorical: the plans have no chance to succeed, yet they serve both the organizations and the public as symbols