Nielsen Camp Century

The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55425-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap. This book is the first comprehensive account of Camp Century. Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine installation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nielsen, Henry

Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfeldt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).