Camp Century the untold story of America's secret Arctic military base under the Greenland ice

"At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap, Camp Century. Officially defined as a scientific research station, this facility had an undisclosed purpose: to aim up to 600 nuclear warheads, buried in the ice, at the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfelt, 1968- (Author)
Other Authors: Flegal, Heidi (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Danés
Published: New York Columbia University Press [2021]
Subjects:
Camp Century (Nuclear laboratory : Greenland) > History.
Project Iceworm (U.S.) > History.
United States. > Army.
États-Unis. > Army.
Camp Century (Nuclear laboratory : Greenland)
United States. > Army
Nuclear weapons > Greenland > History.
Cold War.
Intercontinental ballistic missiles > United States > History.
Armes nucléaires > Groenland > Histoire.
Guerre froide.
Missiles balistiques intercontinentaux > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > Military > United States.
Diplomatic relations
Intercontinental ballistic missiles
Nuclear weapons
United States > Foreign relations > Denmark.
Denmark > Foreign relations > United States.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Danemark.
Danemark > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
Denmark
Greenland
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fortress Greenland
  • "The Concept of Atoms" in Greenland
  • The City Under the Ice The Making of Camp Century: A Photographic Tour
  • News from Greenland
  • Scouting in the High Arctic
  • U.S. Military R & D on the Northern Frontier
  • The Cold War and Climate Research
  • Leaving the Ice Sheet: A Lingering Farewell
  • The Legacy of Camp Century

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