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Rehearsing for Doomsday: Memoir of a Nuclear Missile Crew Commander

By Scott Cook

Book information

Publisher
Publishers, Inc., McFarland & Company
Year
2021
ISBN
1476686370, 1476644936, 2021043142
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4099924 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-02 03:10:32
HIS027110HistoryMilitaryNonfiction

Description

In 1988, Scott Cook was a boarding school PE teacher responsible for the proper inflation of dodge balls. A year later, he was operating an underground strategic missile control center with 10 intercontinental nuclear weapons capable of obliterating an entire country. This unexpected journey took him from the serene hills of Virginia through months of intensive training on the California coast to the front lines of the Cold War, beneath the frozen plains of North Dakota. His frank, entertaining memoir describes the insular and secretive military subculture of men and women who lived with the sobering burden of potentially unleashing global devastation, and how an easy-going gym coach ended up in an organization whose unofficial motto was "To err is human; to forgive is not Strategic Air Command policy."

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