Exploring Greenland

Cold War Science and Technology on Ice

By: Kristine C. Harper (Editor), Ronald E. Doel (Editor), Matthias Heymann (Editor)

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Hardcover | 25 July 2016

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.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 Jacob Ries.-

.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 ThreeEntanglement 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.-

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"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)

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