re: #94 Decatur Deb

And the earlier Bomarc, the kind that melted into the ground at Ft. Monmouth.

My father was part of a civil service team that did field modification/upgrade to Bomarcs in 1960-ish. It was just a job, and an interesting one, but they had to be very careful and the missiles were pretty much live and ready to go even while they were working.

On the one hand, defense is a dangerous business. On the other hand, it’s objectively almost totally insane, the kind of things this country put up with as normal in the Cold War… RFNA propellant and 10KT nukes almost in people’s backyards. *shudder*