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141 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Brinksmanship in the Sunflower State. Kansas played an outsized role in the Cold War, when civilization's survival hung in the balance. Forbes Air Force Base operated nine Atlas E intercontinental ballistic missile launch sites. Schilling Air Force Base was the hub for twelve Atlas F ICBMs. McConnell Air Force Base operated eighteen Titan II ICBMs. A Kansas State University engineering professor converted a discarded Union Pacific Railroad water tank into his family's backyard fallout shelter. A United States president from Kansas faced several nuclear war scares as the Cold War moved into the thermonuclear age. Landry Brewer tells the fascinating story of highest-level national strategy and how everyday Kansans lived with threats to their way of life.
Foreword, by Mark Parillo -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Cold War origins -- Kansas missiles -- After the obsolescence -- Sunflower State Civil Defense -- Dwight Eisenhower: Cold War President -- Kansas military installations -- THE DAY AFTER -- Cold War legacy -- Notes -- About the author.
Landry Brewer ; foreword by Mark Parillo.