Exploring Greenland : cold war science and technology on ice /

Exploring Greenland : cold war science and technology on ice / Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann, editors.

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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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Other Authors: Doel, Ronald Edmund (Editor), Harper, Kristine (Editor), Heymann, Matthias (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
Subjects:
Cold War (1945-1989)
Cold War.
Diplomatic relations.
Ecology.
Research.
Strategic aspects of individual places.
Greenland > Strategic aspects.
Greenland > Environmental conditions.
Greenland > Research.
Greenland > History > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > Denmark.
Denmark > Foreign relations > United States.
Denmark.
Greenland.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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