US Air Force works to bring prestige back to nuke missile roles

Ask a "missileer" -- one of the key-keepers for America's nuclear bombs -- whether their first career choice was to spend days on end cocooned underground in a steel bunker, and the answer is usually no. Decades after the Cold War, and frequently forgotten by a public preoccupied with the threat of terrorism, the United States still fields hundreds of Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), dotted in silos across rural America. Most airmen join the Air Force to fly, but here o