Last of the Glow Worms

Memoir of a Nuclear Weapons Technician at the End of the Cold War

von Jeff Woodward

190 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.S. Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent to Soviet ambitions. The end of the Cold War saw the decommissioning of much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the phasing out of support personnel. This memoir by one of the Army's last "glow worms" chronicles his career as a nuclear weapons specialist--from 17-year-old recruit to participant in Operation Silent Echo, codename for the removal of all tactical warheads throughout Asia and Europe.

• Themen: Technologie, Ingenieurswissenschaft, Landwirtschaft, Industrieprozesse Andere Technologien und verwandte Wissenschaften Militärtechnik Rüstungs- und Waffentechnik
• ISBN: 9781476671352
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2017
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: McFarland