The Missile Next Door : The Minuteman in the American Heartland / Gretchen Heefner.
Heefner, Gretchen, author.
2012
UG1312.I2 H43 2012eb
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Title The Missile Next Door : The Minuteman in the American Heartland / Gretchen Heefner.
Author Heefner, Gretchen, author.
ISBN 9780674067462
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067462
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 17 halftones, 2 maps
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674067462 doi
Call Number UG1312.I2 H43 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 358.1/75482097309045
Summary 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.
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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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