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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Heefner, Gretchen, author. The Missile Next Door : The Minuteman in the American Heartland / Gretchen Heefner. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource : 17 halftones, 2 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Strange New Landscape -- 1 Ace in the Hole -- 2 Selling Deterrence -- 3 The Mapmakers -- 4 Cold War on the Range -- 5 Nuclear Heartland -- 6 The Radical Plains -- 7 Dismantling the Cold War -- Conclusion: Missiles and Memory -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 in their backyards-and what that story tells us about enduring political divides and the persistence of defense spending. By scattering the missiles in out-of-the-way places, the Defense Department kept the chilling calculus of Cold War nuclear strategy out of view. This subterfuge was necessary, Gretchen Heefner argues, in order for Americans to accept a costly nuclear buildup and the resulting threat of Armageddon. As for the ranchers, farmers, and other civilians in the Plains states who were first seduced by the economics of war and then forced to live in the Soviet crosshairs, their sense of citizenship was forever changed. Some were stirred to dissent. Others consented but found their proud Plains individualism giving way to a growing dependence on the military-industrial complex. Even today, some communities express reluctance to let the Minutemen go, though the Air Force no longer wants them buried in the heartland. Complicating a red state/blue state reading of American politics, Heefner's account helps to explain the deep distrust of government found in many western regions, and also an addiction to defense spending which, for many local economies, seems inescapable. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Cold War Social aspects West (U.S.) Intercontinental ballistic missile bases United States History. Minuteman (Missile) HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012 9783110288995 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY; POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2012 9783110293715 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2012 9783110288971 ZDB-23-DPS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP Complete eBook Package 2011-2014 9783110374889 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package 2012 9783110374919 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459517 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110662566 print 9780674059115 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067462 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674067462.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Strange New Landscape -- 1 Ace in the Hole -- 2 Selling Deterrence -- 3 The Mapmakers -- 4 Cold War on the Range -- 5 Nuclear Heartland -- 6 The Radical Plains -- 7 Dismantling the Cold War -- Conclusion: Missiles and Memory -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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