The Cold War in the Flint Hills

– By Greg Hoots – For four years in the early 1960s the Flint Hills of Wabaunsee County was home to one of America’s weapons of global destruction, an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile carrying a thermonuclear warhead.  Located one and a half mile northwest of Keene, Kansas, Missile Launcher No. 6 was one of nine such … Continue reading The Cold War in the Flint Hills