Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains. By David W. Mills.

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Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains . By David W. Mills. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. ix + 300 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) C old War in a Cold Land joins the growing body of scholarship that explores how communities and regions responded to federal Cold War programs. David W. Mills is interested in the Northern Great Plains states of North and South Dakota and Montana, where he traces local responses to now-familiar events such as McCarthyism, civil defense initiatives, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the construction of military installations, and the proliferation of nuclear missile silos. While some of this material has been covered … g.heefner{at}neu.edu