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Between 1961 and 1967 america Air Make buried 1,000 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles in pastures over the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door explains to the storyline of how rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to battle the Cold War by coping with nuclear missiles in their backyards - and what that report explains to us about long lasting political divides and the persistence of security spending. By scattering the missiles in out-of-the-way places, the Defense Department retained the chilling calculus of Chilly War nuclear strategy out of view. This subterfuge was necessary, Gretchen Heefner argues, for Americans to simply accept a costly nuclear buildup and the ensuing threat of Armageddon. For the ranchers, farmers, and other civilians in the Plains expresses who have been first seduced by the economics of battle and then obligated to are in the Soviet crosshairs, their sense of citizenship was forever modified. Somewere stirred to dissent. Others consented but found their very pleased Plains individualism giving way to an evergrowing dependence on the military-industrial organic. Right now, some communities exhibit reluctance to allow Minutemen go, although Air Force no more wants them buried in the heartland.Complicating a red point out/blue point out reading of American politics, Heefner's accounts helps to clarify the profound distrust of authorities within many western regions and also an craving to security spending which, for most local economies, seems inescapable.
