Exploring Greenland : Cold War science and technology on ice / Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann, editors.
Doel, Ronald Edmund, editor.; Harper, Kristine, editor.; Heymann, Matthias, editor.
2016
G760 .E97 2016eb
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Title
Exploring Greenland : Cold War science and technology on ice / Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann, editors.
ISBN
9781137596888 (electronic book)
1137596880 (electronic book)
9781137596871
1137596872
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59688-8
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-59688-8 doi
9781137596871
Call Number
G760 .E97 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
998.2
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-287) and index.
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Doel, Ronald Edmund, editor.
Harper, Kristine, editor.
Heymann, Matthias, editor.
Series
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
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Exploring Greenland.
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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 they 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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