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Article: Not your typical road trip.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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The Traveler's Guide to Nuclear Weapons: A Journey Through America's Cold War Battlefields By James M. Maroncelli and Timothy L. Karpin Historical Odysseys Publishers, 2002 499 pages, 182 photo pages, and 199 maps and diagrams, in PDF format on CD-ROM; $29.95
IN THE SUMMER OF 2000, I EMBARKED on a rambling, unofficial survey of the Cold War landscape in America for a book that would be called Survival City. On one of the first nights, I sat in a motel in South Dakota, a few miles away from a Minuteman missile installation, poring over a road atlas, refining my itinerary.
As I scanned the maps, identifying the sites I wanted to visit and calculating the ...