THIS MIGHT INTEREST SOME READERS: B-52 Days Remembered.

UPDATE: Jim Bennett emails:

The book link you just posted on the B-52 stories looks interesting. Many people these days have no idea how extensive the activities of the Cold War actually were. A good complement to that book is the new blog Cold War Warrior, which deal with the experiences of a friend of mine who was involved in the world of nuclear testing, and various other things. Worth checking out for anybody interested in such things.

Indeed. And give the Cold War warriors credit — we won, and we avoided nuclear catastrophe, which at the time seemed an unlikely dual outcome.