Cold War Kansas EPUB
by Landry Brewer
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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.
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- Publisher:The History Press
- Publication Date:24/08/2020
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- ISBN:9781439670873
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:The History Press
- Publication Date:24/08/2020
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- ISBN:9781439670873