Author : Landry Brewer
Release : 2020-08-24
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 870/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cold War Kansas by : Landry Brewer
Download or read book Cold War Kansas written by Landry Brewer. This book was released on 2020-08-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.