Cold War Kansas
Download or Read eBook Cold War Kansas PDF written by Landry Brewer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Landry Brewer |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2020-08-24 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781467146630 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1467146633 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Cold War Kansas by : Landry Brewer
Book excerpt: 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.
