Child of Glass

[tracker7]

It is cold out there.  Currently 6F, with a wind chill of -10F.

Did Christmas stuff with my family today.  A mostly good time with a few nice surprises scattered throughout the day.  Was, once again, incredibly grateful to Dad for the satellite radio rig - got about an hour of good darkwave for the drive home.  Sang along quite a bit, even.  I have no shame.

Finished reading Red Star Rogue.  If you're in a mood for some good ol' Cold War craziness, I can't recommend this one enough.  For some more  frightening reading about that era, the chapters of The Silent War dealing with Edward Teller are appropriate.  That man was brilliant, yes, but scary-crazy.

Feeling, somehow, like I shouldn't go to work tomorrow, like I'm on vacation or something.  Holiday fugue state, I guess.

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[cc-wolff.livejournal.com]

That is one of my favorite books. It's a fascinating/terrifying look inside the breakdown of Soviet command/control of its nuclear forces a decade before any of the textbooks even guess that they'd started to collapse.

Did you find the reference to the fate of the Scorpion (last paragraph of the last chapter before the epilogue) tantalizing? I swear, I think Sewell is letting on that he knows more than he's yet said.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

I don't know how much I buy into Sewell's idea of the rogue cabal of Soviet officials trying to provoke a war, but darned if it doesn't make for some good reading.

The descriptions of daily life on the sub (chemical-haze air, drills, etc) really hooked me. I'm not especially claustrophobic, but I sure was glad to be able to look out the window every now and then.

His dirty tease about the Scorpion makes me halfway expect that in a few years, say, towards the end of Mr. Sewell's life, he's going to write a nice big juicy book about all kinds of Cold War incidents.