@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674067462,
      recid = {1403929},
      author = {Heefner, Gretchen.},
      title = {The missile next door the Minuteman in the American  heartland / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674067462},
      pages = {1 online resource (294 p., [18] p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {Between 1961 and 1967, the United States Air Force buried  1,000 Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles in  pastures across the Great Plains. This book 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.  The author argues that this subterfuge was necessary 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1403929},
}