How Cold War Maj. Harold Hering Asked a Forbidden Question That Cost Him His Career
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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...
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Original Title: TIL of Air Force Maj. Harold Hering was discharged for asking in a missile training class, “How can I know that an order to launch came from a sane president?” A year later, James Schlesinger, Secty of Defense, ordered his command to check with him if Pres. Nixon issued any “unusual orders.”