Exploring Greenland : cold war science and technology on ice / Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann, editors.
Using newly declassified documents, this book explores why U.S. military leaders after World War II sought to monitor the far north and understand the physical environment of Greenland, a crucial territory of Denmark. It reveals a fascinating yet little-known realm of Cold War intrigue and a delicat...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Contributors -- Map of Greenland -- Polar projection map -- Greenland and the world: timeline -- List of figures. Introduction: exploring Greenland's secrets: science, technology, diplomacy, and Cold War planning in global contexts / Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, and Matthias Heymann. Part 1 Arctic challenges in the Cold War : Defending the North American continent: why the physical environmental sciences mattered in Cold War Greenland / Ronald E. Doel -- Small state preoccupations: science and technology in the pursuit of modernization, security, and sovereignty in Greenland / Kristian H. Nielsen. Part 2 Controlling hostile environments: geophysical research in Greenland : In search of control: Arctic weather stations in the early Cold War / Matthias Heymann -- Security and the nation: glaciology in early Cold War Greenland / Janet Martin-Nielsen -- Uncommon grounds: Daniel and American perspectives on Greenland's geology (1946-1960) / Christopher Jacob Ries -- Battling the Aurora Borealis: the transnational coproduction of ionospheric research in early Cold War Greenland / Henrik Knudsen -- Danish seismic research in relation to American nuclear detection efforts / Anne Lif Lund Jacobsen. Part 3 Entanglement and transformation: diplomacy and politics of science in Greenland : Camp century: Cold War city under the ice / Henry Nielsen and Kristian H. Nielsen -- Cold War Greenland as a space for international scientific collaboration / Henrik Knudsen -- Cold atoms: the hunt for uranium in Greenland in the late Cold War and beyond / Henry Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen. Bibliography -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a Using newly declassified documents, this book explores why U.S. military leaders after World War II sought to monitor the far north and understand the physical environment of Greenland, a crucial territory of Denmark. It reveals a fascinating yet little-known realm of Cold War intrigue and a delicate diplomatic duet between a smaller state and a superpower amid a time of intense global pressures. Written by scholars in Denmark and the United States, this book explores many compelling topics. What led to the creation of the U.S. Thule Air Base in Greenland, one of the world's largest, and why did the U.S. build a nuclear-powered city under Greenland's ice cap? How did Danish concern about sovereignty shape scientific research programs in Greenland? Also explored here: why did Denmark's most famous scientist, Inge Lehmann, became involved in research in Greenland, and what international reverberations resulted from the crash of a U.S. B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons near Thule in January 1968? | ||
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