The Missile Next Door : : The Minuteman in the American Heartland /

The Missile Next Door : : The Minuteman in the American Heartland / / Gretchen Heefner.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Heefner, Gretchen,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 17 halftones, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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