One night In 1968, Ed Meagher was finishing his last shift at Clark Airways, which included authenticating and repeating messages for the nuclear-armed B-52 fleet in Southeast Asia.
Then his phone lines started dinging, with signal after signal — and he couldn’t figure out why none were a match.
This monologue is the second in our series with
The War Horse.
Additional Resources
We Were at DefCon 2 — One Step From Nuclear War — and I Was Checking My Work, Ed Meagher, The War Horse, 2024
