The Missile Next Door

The Minuteman in the American Heartland

Gretchen Heefner

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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674059115

Publication Date: 09/10/2012

Short

320 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

17 halftones, 2 maps

World

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Introduction: A Strange New Landscape
1. Ace in the Hole
2. Selling Deterrence
3. The Mapmakers
4. Cold War on the Range
5. Nuclear Heartland
6. The Radical Plains
7. Dismantling the Cold War
Conclusion: Missiles and Memory
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013

Selected Titles on Making Modern South Asia [abstract yellow and green flowers]

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