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Cover: 9780231201773 | Camp Century | Henry Nielsen (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2021
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Camp Century
The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice
Taschenbuch von Henry Nielsen (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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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 Soviet Union. In 1966, just six years after the camp was established, the United States gave up this provocative strategy and abandoned the base. Despite its brief life, Camp Century has been the cause of controversies from diplomatic relations between the United States and its Arctic allies, Denmark and Greenland, to the risks of radioactive waste abandoned at the site. This book is the first comprehensive account of the U.S. Army's "city under the ice.? Beginning with the Truman administration's vision of military superiority in the Arctic and continuing through present-day concerns over the effects of climate change, Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine installation.
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 Soviet Union. In 1966, just six years after the camp was established, the United States gave up this provocative strategy and abandoned the base. Despite its brief life, Camp Century has been the cause of controversies from diplomatic relations between the United States and its Arctic allies, Denmark and Greenland, to the risks of radioactive waste abandoned at the site. This book is the first comprehensive account of the U.S. Army's "city under the ice.? Beginning with the Truman administration's vision of military superiority in the Arctic and continuing through present-day concerns over the effects of climate change, Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine installation.
Über den Autor
Kristian H. Nielsen is associate professor at the Center for Science Studies at Aarhus University. He is coeditor of Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions (2012)

Henry Nielsen is associate professor emeritus at the Center for Science Studies at Aarhus University. With Kristian H. Nielsen and others, he is coauthor of Exploring Greenland: Cold War Science and Technology on Ice (2016) and Science in Denmark: A Thousand-Year History (2008).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction
1. Fortress Greenland
2. "The Concept of Atoms" in Greenland
3. The City Under the Ice
The Making of Camp Century: A Photographic Tour
4. News from Greenland
5. Scouting in the High Arctic
6. U.S. Military R&D on the Northern Frontier
7. The Cold War and Climate Research
8. Leaving the Ice Sheet: A Lingering Farewell
9. The Legacy of Camp Century
Notes
Archives
References
Image and Photo Credits
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780231201773
ISBN-10: 023120177X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Nielsen, Henry
Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfeldt
Hersteller: Columbia University Press
Maße: 154 x 228 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Henry Nielsen (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,484 kg
Artikel-ID: 119504892
Über den Autor
Kristian H. Nielsen is associate professor at the Center for Science Studies at Aarhus University. He is coeditor of Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions (2012)

Henry Nielsen is associate professor emeritus at the Center for Science Studies at Aarhus University. With Kristian H. Nielsen and others, he is coauthor of Exploring Greenland: Cold War Science and Technology on Ice (2016) and Science in Denmark: A Thousand-Year History (2008).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction
1. Fortress Greenland
2. "The Concept of Atoms" in Greenland
3. The City Under the Ice
The Making of Camp Century: A Photographic Tour
4. News from Greenland
5. Scouting in the High Arctic
6. U.S. Military R&D on the Northern Frontier
7. The Cold War and Climate Research
8. Leaving the Ice Sheet: A Lingering Farewell
9. The Legacy of Camp Century
Notes
Archives
References
Image and Photo Credits
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780231201773
ISBN-10: 023120177X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Nielsen, Henry
Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfeldt
Hersteller: Columbia University Press
Maße: 154 x 228 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Henry Nielsen (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,484 kg
Artikel-ID: 119504892
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