Download or read book Nuclear Country written by Catherine McNicol Stock and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both North Dakota and South Dakota have long been among the most reliably Republican states in the nation: in the past century, voters have only chosen two Democrats, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, and in 2016 both states preferred Donald Trump by over thirty points. Yet in the decades before World War II, the people of the Northern Plains were not universally politically conservative. Instead, many Dakotans, including Republicans, supported experiments in agrarian democracy that incorporated ideas from populism and progressivism to socialism and communism and fought against "bigness" in all its forms, including "bonanza" farms, out-of-state railroads, corporations, banks, corrupt political parties, and distant federal bureaucracies—but also, surprisingly, the culture of militarism and the expansion of American military power abroad. In Nuclear Country, Catherine McNicol Stock explores the question of why, between 1968 and 1992, most voters in the Dakotas abandoned their distinctive ideological heritage and came to embrace the conservatism of the New Right. Stock focuses on how this transformation coincided with the coming of the military and national security states to the countryside via the placement of military bases and nuclear missile silos on the Northern Plains. This militarization influenced regional political culture by reinforcing or re-contextualizing long-standing local ideas and practices, particularly when the people of the plains found that they shared culturally conservative values with the military. After adopting the first two planks of the New Right—national defense and conservative social ideas—Dakotans endorsed the third plank of New Right ideology, fiscal conservativism. Ultimately, Stock contends that militarization and nuclearization were the historical developments most essential to the creation of the rural New Right throughout the United States, and that their impact can best be seen in this often-overlooked region's history.

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Download or read book Frozen Hell written by Patrick Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, the military's own "Frozen Hell." The wave of military memoirs flooding the market have provided audiences with captivating tales of heroic combat and grieving families, but often military life is far less exciting and memorable, especially if one is stationed stateside. What forms of heroism can men and women obtain when deployments are practically a thing of myth? In this uncensored, brutally honest, and often hilarious behind-the-scenes chronicle, audiences will discover the very depths of a frequently misunderstood world - The United States Security Forces. At the home of some of the world's most powerful nuclear weapons, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, our service men and women constantly battle with unseen enemies: callous leadership, unforgiving weather, monotonous work cycles, fatigue, and boredom. This is true military life like you have never experienced it before.

Download or read book Cold War in a Cold Land written by David W. Mills and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most communists, as any plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s, lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota. The Cold War as it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities and coasts. Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism, as common wisdom has it. In this book, David W. Mills offers an enlightening look at what most of the heartland was up to while America was united in its war on Reds. Cold War in a Cold Land adopts a regional perspective to develop a new understanding of a critical chapter in the nation’s history. Marx himself had no hope that landholding farmers would rise up as communist revolutionaries. So it should come as no surprise that in places like South Dakota, where 70 percent of the population owned land and worked for themselves, people didn’t take the threat of internal subversion very seriously. Mills plumbs the historical record to show how residents of the plains states—while deeply patriotic and supportive of the nation’s foreign policy—responded less than enthusiastically to national anticommunist programs. Only South Dakota, for example, adopted a loyalty oath, and it was fervently opposed throughout the state. Only Montana, prodded by one state legislator, formed an investigation committee—one that never investigated anyone and was quickly disbanded. Plains state people were, however, “highly churched” and enthusiastically embraced federal attempts to use religion as a bulwark against atheistic communist ideology. Even more enthusiastic was the Great Plains response to the military buildup that accompanied Cold War politics, as the construction of airbases and missile fields brought untold economic benefits to the region. A much-needed, nuanced account of how average citizens in middle America experienced Cold War politics and policies, Cold War in a Cold Land is a significant addition to the history of both the Cold War and the Great Plains.

Download or read book Military Construction Appropriations for 1988 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."

Download or read book Coming in from the Cold written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Into the Sun Air Force Memories 1957 1976 The Rise to Power written by John Womack and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows the Air Force in action as it developed from a stepchild of the Army into the dominant force of modern battle. These changes took place between 1957 and 1976, and my friends and I made those changes take place, but we didn't know we were doing that until after it happened.

Download or read book Military Construction Appropriations for 1988 Quality of life in the military written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book South Dakota s First Century of Flight written by Norma J. Kraemer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first aircraft heavier than air took to the skies in South Dakota in 1911. Since that time, pilots, mechanics, and dreamers have used aviation in innovative ways to shrink the large distances between the prairies and the mountains of the state. The start of the U.S. Space Program began at the Stratobowl in the 1930s and evolved into todays modern hot air balloons. People have used aircraft, not only for transportation, but also for controlling varmints, from grasshoppers to coyotes. Firefighters routinely use aircraft to put out forest fires, and many a tourist has seen Mount Rushmore from a helicopter. South Dakota has also served the military since World War II with the major bombers of the U.S. Air Forces arsenal. Perhaps best of all, South Dakotans enjoy flying for pure enjoyment.