Was This Remote Radar The Worst Military Assignment Ever?

Some military posts are better than others

Grant Piper
6 min readDec 17, 2023
(Public domain)

Before the advent of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), the only way to launch an effective nuclear strike during the Cold War was to use a fleet of bombers. In the event of a nuclear incident, a series of nuclear-laden bombers would be dispatched from secret airfields and from…

--

--

Grant Piper

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.