The missile next door : the Minuteman in the American heartland / Gretchen Heefner.

Between 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried 1,000 Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles in pastures across the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door tells the story of how rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by living with nuclear missiles i...

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Main Author: Heefner, Gretchen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Q strange new landscape
  • Ace in the hole
  • Selling deterrence
  • The mapmakers
  • Cold War on the range
  • Nuclear heartland
  • The radical plains
  • Dismantling the Cold War
  • Conclusion: Missiles and memory.