Last of the glow worms: memoir of a nuclear weapons technician at the end of the Cold War

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"--

  • OCLC #: 981991360
  • ISBN #:
    • 9781476671352
    • 1476671354
  • Call #: U264.W68 2017
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — New Books — U264
  • Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
  • Physical Description: v, 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Contents:
    • Getting out of Dodge
    • Learning the power of the atom
    • Wilkommen in Deutschland
    • Working area one
    • Familiar faces
    • Culture shock
    • Nuke training and investigations
    • Broken arrow and the NWTI
    • Operation Silent Echo
    • The final days of the 64th Ordinance Company
    • America or bust.