Last of the Glow Worms - Memoir of a Nuclear Weapons Technician at the End of the Cold War

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.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

¿1.¿Getting Out of Dodge

¿2.¿Learning the Power of the Atom

¿3.¿Wilkommen in Deutschland

¿4.¿Working Area One

¿5.¿Familiar Faces

¿6.¿Culture Shock

¿7.¿Nuke Training and Investigations

¿8.¿Broken Arrow and the NWTI

¿9.¿Operation Silent Echo

10.¿The Final Days of the 64th Ordnance Company

11.¿America or Bust

Epilogue

References and Further Reading

Index

About the author

Jeff Woodward served seven years in the U.S. Army and now works in the heavy automotive industry. He lives in Lockport, Illinois.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Woodward, Woodward Jeff
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2017
• EAN: 9781476671352
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7135-2
• No. of pages: 189
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Military / Weapons, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, Cold War, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Nuclear weapons, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts