[PDF.75ko] The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland

The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland

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 | #753599 in Books |  2012-09-10 |  2012-07-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.42 x1.00 x5.88l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Missile Silos - Half Empty or Half Full?|By Duck and Cover|This book by historian Gretchen Heefner explores an important aspect of the Cold War - how the United States deployed land-based nuclear missiles in the hope of deterring an attack by the Soviet Union. Dr. Heefner became inspired to write this book after visiting the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Da| |Superb...From the first pages of the book, Heefner asks her readers to confront both the utter weirdness and the real threat involved in a project where people cohabited with missiles that each contained a 1.2 megaton warhead and a whole defense complex

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.

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You easily download any file type for your device.The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland   |  Gretchen Heefner. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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