Gretchen Heefner: 1 book

Book cover of The Missile Next Door

The Missile Next Door

The Minuteman in the American Heartland

by Gretchen Heefner
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

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.
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