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The Missile Plains: Frontline of America's Cold War (2003) (17 MB .pdf file)

Introduction (80 KB .pdf file)
Chapter 1: The Cold War 1945-62 (1.4 MB .pdf file)
Chapter 2: U.S. Strategic and Missile Armament Systems 1950s-60s (830 KB .pdf file)
Chapter 3: Minuteman and the Next Generation 1960s - present (1.1 MB .pdf file)
Chapter 4: Life and Landscape Before Minuteman to the 1960s (208 KB .pdf file)
Chapter 5: U.S. Air Force, Strategic Air Command and Ellsworth Air Force Base 1940s -90 (1.2 MB .pdf file)
Chapter 6: Minuteman Missile Sites in South Dakota 1960s-80s (3.7 MB .pdf file)
Chapter 7: Delta-01 and Delta-09 1960s-80s (4.7 MB .pdf file)
Chapter 8: Missileer Culture: Day to Day Life 1960-91 (2.1 MB .pdf file)
Chapter 9: Opposition to Nuclear Armament late 1950s - 90s (490 KB .pdf file)
Chapter 10: Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and Disarmament of Minuteman II 1990s (570 KB .pdf file)
Chapter 11: Minuteman Missile National Historic Site 1990 - present (750 KB .pdf file)
Endnotes (110 KB .pdf file)
Bibliography, Index and Appendixes (90 KB .pdf file)


			Did You Know? South Dakota’s Minuteman Missile field covered 13,500 square miles. That area is larger then the state of Maryland.

Last Updated: February 07, 2007 at 11:45 EST