Product Description: [Read by Susan Boyce] Between 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried one thousand 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...read more

'Presents the complexities and problems of the civilians and the military personnel who are directly involved in maintaining and operating the Minuteman Inter Continental Ballistic Missile'--Provided by publisher.