Rehearsing for Doomsday : Memoir of a Nuclear Missile Crew Commander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

Grand Forks Air Force Base (N.D.).

United States. Air Force--Guided missile personnel--Biography.

United States.

United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command. Strategic Missile Wing, 321st--Biography.

Cook, Scott, 1961-.

Cook, Scott.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Other Title:

Rehearsing for Doomsday

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

"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.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. How Did I Get Here?

Chapter 2. Those Who Can't Teach…

Chapter 3. Choose Your Service

Chapter 4. Paper Underwear

Chapter 5. What Kind of School Is This?

Chapter 6. A Cold War Education

Chapter 7. The Pointy End Goes Up, Gentlemen

Chapter 8. The Box

Chapter 9. Riders May Experience Slight Turbulence

Chapter 10. Right Justified?

Chapter 11. E(woe) Is Me

Chapter 12. California's Endless Fall

Chapter 13. Go North, Young Man

Chapter 14. Yes, But a Very Smart Monkey

Chapter 15. Sleeping on Alert

Chapter 16. The Missileer Code

Chapter 17. How to Unbutton a Launch Silo

Chapter 18. Women in the Man Cave

Chapter 19. Why So Testy?

Chapter 20. North Dakota- Vacationland USA!

Chapter 21. The Missile Olympics

Chapter 22. The Pit vs. the Cockpit

Chapter 23. The Monster in the Drawer

Chapter 24. Talking Shop

Chapter 25. It's Not the Blast That Will Kill You

Chapter 26. Grooving to the Groobers

Chapter 27. Jail Break

Chapter 28. The Cape Crusader

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4766-4493-4

OCLC:

1283855519