LEADER 04097nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910826926803321 005 20230126205738.0 010 $a0-674-07088-7 010 $a0-674-06746-0 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067462 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241543 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24437913 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000721234 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11401030 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721234 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10687097 035 $a(PQKB)10108553 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301130 035 $a(DE-B1597)178005 035 $a(OCoLC)1013946059 035 $a(OCoLC)1037967765 035 $a(OCoLC)1041974794 035 $a(OCoLC)1046607393 035 $a(OCoLC)1047008442 035 $a(OCoLC)1049628793 035 $a(OCoLC)1054874203 035 $a(OCoLC)840445213 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067462 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301130 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10597684 035 $a(OCoLC)809536890 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241543 100 $a20120125d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe missile next door $ethe Minuteman in the American heartland /$fGretchen Heefner 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (294 p., [18] p. of plates )$cill., maps, ports 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-05911-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: A Strange New Landscape --$t1 Ace in the Hole --$t2 Selling Deterrence --$t3 The Mapmakers --$t4 Cold War on the Range --$t5 Nuclear Heartland --$t6 The Radical Plains --$t7 Dismantling the Cold War --$tConclusion: Missiles and Memory --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aBetween 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. 606 $aMinuteman (Missile) 606 $aIntercontinental ballistic missile bases$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zWest (U.S.) 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory, Military 607 $aGreat Plains$xHistory, Military 615 0$aMinuteman (Missile) 615 0$aIntercontinental ballistic missile bases$xHistory. 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects 676 $a358.1/75482097309045 700 $aHeefner$b Gretchen$01622239 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826926803321 996 $aThe missile next door$93955994 997 $aUNINA