Missile Next Door The Minuteman in the American Heartland

Name: Missile Next Door The Minuteman in the American Heartland
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ISBN: 9780674059115

ISBN-10: 0674059115

ISBN-13: 9780674059115

Edition: 2012

Authors: 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 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…

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction: A 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


Abbreviations


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index