Beneath the Plains: The Minuteman Missile On Alert—Live Q&A

Harpers Ferry Center and Minuteman Missile National Historic Site host a live conversation on the legacy of the Atomic Age and the Cold War in observance of the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Watch our award-winning film "Beneath the Plains: The Minuteman Missile On Alert" at the link below, then join us for a live Q&A with the film's executive producers and a panel of Cold War experts and former missileers.

Panelists:

Linda Aldrich was one of the first female Air Force Officers to serve on a Minuteman missile combat crew. She later served as crew commander and instructor commander at Whitman AFB, Minuteman operations instructor at Vandenberg AFB, missile squadron commander at F.E. Warren AFB, and senior military advisor at the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Colonel Aldrich retired from the Air Force in 2011 after 29 years of service.

Al Hall served as a missile maintainer in the 44th Missile Maintenance Squadron at Ellsworth Air Force Base between 1975 and 1994. Today he serves as a volunteer at Minuteman Missile National Historic Site.

Gretchen Heefner is an associate professor of history at Northeastern University in Boston, where she teaches and researches the history of the U.S. in the world, with a focus on the Cold War. Her first book, The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland, traces the deployment of nuclear missiles across the American heartland in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Kris Kirby is Superintendent of Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which preserves portions of three World War II sites (in New Mexico, Tennessee, and Washington) where the United States developed the world’s first atomic weapons.

Eric Leonard is Superintendent of Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota and has been with the National Park Service for over 20 years. Over the last five years, Eric has led a significant transformation of the Minuteman Missile NHS Visitor Center and visitor experience highlighting the Cold War and its many complicated facets.

Mark Southern is a film producer with the National Park Service’s Harpers Ferry Center for Interpretive Media in WV, where he manages the production of films and digital media for NPS sites across the country.

To view Beneath the Plains and other NPS films on the Cold War:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB7k9MfO2H4LOtNELwbhJ5g

To learn more about Minuteman Missile National Historic Site: https://www.nps.gov/mimi/index.htm

To learn more about Manhattan Project National Historical Park:
https://www.nps.gov/mapr/index.htm

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