From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.S. Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent to Soviet ambitions. The end of the Cold War saw the decommissioning of much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the phasing out of support personnel. This memoir by one of the Army's last "glow worms" chronicles his career as a nuclear weapons specialist--from 17-year-old recruit to participant in Operation Silent Echo, codename for the removal of all tactical warheads throughout Asia and Europe.

All four books in 'Heirs And Descendants', a series of thrillers by Daniel Kemp, now available in one volume! The Desolate Garden: After Harry Paterson's father is murdered, he travels to London and learns that his father had discovered hidden information dating back to 1936 and a large sum of money missing from the Royal Government Bank's accounts. With only mysterious initials and a Leningrad address as clues, Harry and Judith Meadows team up to unravel the mystery of his father's death and uncover the secrets hidden in the bank's files. Percy Crow: Percy Crow escapes from Soviet Russia to Hamburg during World War II, where he sells secrets to British Intelligence. Decades later, Maudlin Paterson sets out to uncover the truth about the royal family's dark secrets, which leads to Harry Paterson and his friends unraveling the clues left behind by Percy. As they follow the sepia images, Harry discovers his great-grandfather's secrets, but at what cost? What Comes Before: Lord Harry Paterson witnesses the death of a woman at a grouse shoot, leading to his forced return to work for the British Security Services. The woman had stolen a top-secret file containing information on a new encryption method that could change the balance of power between nations if in the wrong hands. Harry is tasked with finding the file and eliminating anyone who has seen it, but can he still do what it takes to protect world safety? My Truth, Your Lies: In the fourth book in Daniel Kemp's 'Heirs and Descendants' series, Harry Paterson interrogates his traitorous nemesis, Judith Meadows, at an old Scottish manor on the Shetland Isles. As he works to uncover a cryptic message from a Russian spy and prevent a terrorist attack on two NATO bases in Cyprus, Harry must navigate a web of international intrigue involving a power-hungry South African and allegations of nuclear weapons hidden on a vast family estate.

Cold War Controller is the compelling memoir of a Canadian Air Force Officer who started off in the junior ranks as a radar technician and later qualified as air traffic controller during the Cold War 1970s and 1980s. Presented as a highly readable collection of vignettes, this volume is chock full of air force history, human interest twists, hilarious pranks, exciting chills and spills of operational flying, situations of the bizarre and unexplainable, and impressions of air force culture. This fascinating collection of anecdotes will interest anyone intrigued by aviation, military history, flying stories, radar technology, self-achievement, the military family, and the overcoming of mental health problems. Learn from Sparky’s mistakes as he begins to succumb to the effects of chronic stress, alcohol dependency, and fear, and yet overcomes his demons to heal and go on learning and working successfully in the Air Force for many more years. Eventually he would end up as a military mental health counsellor.

This book focuses on the current trends in research and analysis of virtual machine placement in a cloud data center. It discusses the integration of machine learning models and metaheuristic approaches for placement techniques. Taking into consideration the challenges of energy-efficient resource management in cloud data centers, it emphasizes upon computing resources being suitably utilised to serve application workloads in order to reduce energy utilisation, while maintaining apt performance. This book provides information on fault-tolerant mechanisms in the cloud and provides an outlook on task scheduling techniques. Focuses on virtual machine placement and migration techniques for cloud data centers Presents the role of machine learning and metaheuristic approaches for optimisation in cloud computing services Includes application of placement techniques for quality of service, performance, and reliability improvement Explores data center resource management, load balancing and orchestration using machine learning techniques Analyses dynamic and scalable resource scheduling with a focus on resource management The text is for postgraduate students, professionals, and academic researchers working in the fields of computer science and information technology.

Story of the education of a youth whose father is determined that his son shall not suffer any of his own disadvantages.