An Unsung Hero Of The Nuclear Age -- Ron Rosenbaum, SlateMaj. Harold Hering and the forbidden question that cost him his career.
It was a risk. Dedicating a book to someone I'd had had a five-minute phone conversation with three decades ago. Someone who, last I'd heard, had become a long-haul trucker and whom I'd given up trying to track down.
But I went ahead and dedicated my new book, How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III, to Maj. Harold Hering because Maj. Hering sacrificed his military career to ask a Forbidden Question about launching nuclear missiles. A question that exposed the comforting illusions of the so called fail-safe system designed to prevent "unauthorized" nuclear missile launches.
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My Comment: I suspect that he is not the only unsung hero that we do not know about.
2 comments:
Such crap. I would be intersted in Major Herring's response to the questions, not filtered through the author.
Personally, I don't want a misseleer in the hole who isn't fully committed to launch. Sort or decays the entire deterance effect, you know.
Such crap, this article reads like some Michel Yon I was there crap. Sure the Major was entitled to ask questions an the AF command was entitled to relieve him given his tasking. I'm putting this author on my list to check twice and then think about it again.
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