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000469323 1001_ $$aHeefner, Gretchen.
000469323 24514 $$aThe missile next door$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe Minuteman in the American heartland /$$cGretchen Heefner.
000469323 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2012.
000469323 300__ $$a1 online resource (294 p., [18] p.) :$$bill., maps.
000469323 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000469323 5050_ $$aIntroduction: 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.
000469323 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000469323 520__ $$aBetween 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.
000469323 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record.
000469323 650_0 $$aMinuteman (Missile)
000469323 650_0 $$aIntercontinental ballistic missile bases$$zUnited States$$xHistory.
000469323 650_0 $$aCold War$$xSocial aspects$$zWest (U.S.)
000469323 651_0 $$aWest (U.S.)$$xHistory, Military.
000469323 651_0 $$aGreat Plains$$xHistory, Military.
000469323 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aHeefner, Gretchen.$$tMissile next door.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012$$z9780674059115$$w(DLC) 2012003666$$w(OCoLC)774147921
000469323 85280 $$bebk$$hHarvard University Press
000469323 85640 $$3Harvard University Press$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067462$$zOnline Access
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