Missile Next Door - The Minuteman in the American Heartland

Zusammenfassung In the 1960s the Air Force buried 1!000 ICBMs in pastures across the Great Plains to keep U.S. nuclear strategy out of view. As rural civilians of all political stripes found themselves living in the Soviet crosshairs! a proud Plains individualism gave way to an economic dependence on the military-industrial complex that still persists today.

Product details

• Authors: Gretchen Heefner, Heefner Gretchen
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2012
• EAN: 9780674059115
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05911-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, International Relations, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Military and defence strategy, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General