Exploring Greenland

Cold War Science and Technology on Ice

Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann

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Palgrave Macmillan
25 July 2016

History of the Americas; History: earliest times to present day; History of science; Historical geology

Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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?

Edited by: Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 5.257kg
ISBN: 9781137596871
ISBN 10: 1137596872
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Pages: 311
Publication Date: 25 July 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

.Introduction Exploring Greenland’s Secrets: Science, Technology, Diplomacy, and Cold War Planning in Global Contexts Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann.- .Part One Arctic Challenges in the Cold War.- .Chapter 1 Defending the North American Continent: Why the Physical Environmental Sciences Mattered in Cold War Greenland Ronald E. Doel.- .Chapter 2 Small state preoccupations: science and technology in the pursuit of modernization, security, and sovereignty in Greenland Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen.- .Part Two Controlling Hostile Environments: Geophysical Research in Greenland.- .Chapter 3 Searching for Control: Weather Stations and Data in the Early Cold War Matthias Heymann.- .Chapter 4 Security and the nation: Glaciology in Early Cold War Greenland Janet Martin-Nielsen.- .Chapter 5 Failed Geologies: Danish and American Agendas for the Geological Investigation of Greenland, 1946-1960 Christopher JacobRies.- .Chapter 6 Battling the Aurora Borealis: The Transnational Coproduction of Ionospheric Research in Early Cold War Greenland Henrik Knudsen.- .Chapter 7 Danish Seismic Research in Relation to American Nuclear Detection Efforts Anne Lif Lund Jacobsen.- .Part Three< Entanglement and Transformation: Diplomacy and Politics of Science in Greenland.- .Chapter 8 Camp Century – Cold War City under the Ice Henry Nielsen and Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen.- .Chapter 9 Cold War Greenland as a Space for International Scientific Collaboration Henrik Knudsen.- .Chapter 10 Cold Atoms: The Hunt for Uranium in Greenland in the Late Cold War and Beyond (1970-1989)Henry Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen.-

Ronald E. Doel is an Associate Professor of History at Florida State University, USA. He focuses on the history of recent science and technology. Kristine C. Harper is an Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. She focuses on the history of recent science and technology. Matthias Heymann is an Associate Professor of history of science and technology at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he studies the history of the atmospheric sciences. He served as Project Leader of “Exploring Greenland: Science and Technology in Cold War Settings,” funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.

Reviews for Exploring Greenland: Cold War Science and Technology on Ice

Exploring Greenland demonstrates that the history of scientific research in Greenland after 1945 is one of complex and often surprising interactions between actors from Denmark, the United States and beyond. It will be essential reading for historians with interests in the politics of Cold War science and environmental knowledge, especially in the Arctic, but valuable also for historians of the modern physical sciences more generally. (Peder Roberts, British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 50 (1), 2017)