Camp Century

Author : Henry Nielsen,Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231554251

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Camp Century by Henry Nielsen,Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen Pdf

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. Drawing on sources including top-secret memos and never-before-seen photographic evidence, they follow the intertwining threads of high-level politics, ice-core research, media representations, daily life beneath the ice, and the specter of long-buried environmental problems that will one day resurface. Camp Century reveals a hidden chapter of Cold War history—and why, as the Greenland ice cap slowly melts, this story is not yet over.

Author : Chester C. Langway,Hans Oeschger,W. Dansgaard
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Greenland Ice Sheet Program
ISBN : 9780875900575

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Greenland Ice Core by Chester C. Langway,Hans Oeschger,W. Dansgaard Pdf

Author : Terry T. McFadden,F. Lawrence Bennett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992-04-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0471525030

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Construction in Cold Regions by Terry T. McFadden,F. Lawrence Bennett Pdf

Written as a reference on effective engineering practice for construction activities in Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions. It is based on many sources around the world including the Soviet Union and China where people live and work in very low temperatures. Provides a broad look at overall problems found by engineers, contractors and builders, including case histories that illustrate actual projects throughout the cold regions of the world.

Author : Gordon de Q. Robin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521153646

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The Climatic Record in Polar Ice Sheets by Gordon de Q. Robin Pdf

This multi-author work examines the glacial geology; measurement; temperature; and the climatic record from ice cores and other topics.

Author : Julia Herzberg,Christian Kehrt,Franziska Torma
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785339875

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Ice and Snow in the Cold War by Julia Herzberg,Christian Kehrt,Franziska Torma Pdf

The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention. However, such environments were of no small importance during the Cold War: in addition to their symbolic significance, they also had direct implications for everything from military strategy to natural resource management. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Military research
ISBN : UCAL:$C193907

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Army Research and Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004264229

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Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge shows how western science was transferred and produced in an international network that was conditioned by global power relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Frozen ground
ISBN : MINN:31951D00768032P

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Research Report - Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hugh Frederick Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Anisotropy
ISBN : UCR:31210025591841

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Measurements of Ultrasonic Wave Velocities in Ice Cores from Greenland and Antarctica by Hugh Frederick Bennett Pdf

Detailed ultrasonic velocity measurements were made on snow and ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica in order to study velocity anisotropy and its relationship to the petrofabric analysis of these cores. In addition, ultrasonic velocities were measured in the near-surface snow layers at Byrd Station and South Pole Station, Antarctica, to provide a detailed velocity profile in the region of the ice sheet where the velocity is greatly influenced by the snow structure. The experimental arrangement, including the design of equipment, measurement errors, techniques, and problems encountered in the study, is discussed. The theory of wave propagation in a general anisotropic medium is reviewed and a detailed presentation of this theory, concerning transversely isotropic media, is given. A method is developed for calculating a theoretical velocity model from the petrofabric analysis of the ice cores, thus providing a means of testing the theory with field and laboratory observations. (Author).

Author : Walter Wager
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Camp Century (Greenland).
ISBN : UOM:39015037059493

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Camp Century by Walter Wager Pdf

Author : Richard Brook,Martin Dodge,Jonathan Hogg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351330640

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Cold War Cities by Richard Brook,Martin Dodge,Jonathan Hogg Pdf

This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare. It explores urbanism as a weapon to combat the dangers of the communist intrusion into the American territories and promote living standards for the urban poor in the US cities. The Cold War saw the birth of ‘atomic urbanisation’, central to which were planning, politics and cultural practices of the newly emerged cities. This book examines cities in the Arctic, Europe, Asia and Australasia in detail to reveal how military, political, resistance and cultural practices impacted on the spaces of everyday life. It probes questions of city planning and development, such as: How did the threat of nuclear war affect planning at a range of geographic scales? What were the patterns of the built environment, architectural forms and material aesthetics of atomic urbanism in difference places? And, how did the ‘Bomb’ manifest itself in civic governance, popular media, arts and academia? Understanding the age of atomic urbanism can help meet the contemporary challenges that cities are facing. The book delivers a new dimension to the existing debates of the ideologically opposed superpowers and their allies, their hemispherical geopolitical struggles, and helps to understand decades of growth post-Second World War by foregrounding the Cold War.

Author : Adrian Howkins,Peder Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108627955

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The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions by Adrian Howkins,Peder Roberts Pdf

The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history. The volume considers the centrality of Indigenous experience and the urgent need to build action in the present on a thorough understanding of the past. Using historical research based on methods ranging from archives and print culture to archaeology and oral histories, these essays provide fresh analyses of the discovery of Antarctica, the disappearance of Sir John Franklin, the fate of the Norse colony in Greenland, the origins of the Antarctic Treaty, and much more. This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of our planet.

Author : Ronald E. Doel,Kristine C. Harper,Matthias Heymann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137596888

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Exploring Greenland by Ronald E. Doel,Kristine C. Harper,Matthias Heymann Pdf

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?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Frozen ground
ISBN : OSU:32435029122603

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Research Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : M.G.L. Baillie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136226915

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A Slice Through Time by M.G.L. Baillie Pdf

The dramatic development of European oak chronologies over the last ten years parallels and supplements the bristlecone-pine chronology in the United States. Dendrochronologists can now provide a wood sample - a time capsule of biological material - for any calender date over the last seven millennia from two continents. For archaeologists, resigned to the imprecision of radiocarbon dating, the implications are profound. For the first time it is possible to establish precise dates for prehistoric events. Similarly, we have an independent and scientifically objective way of testing historical accounts, such as the traditional Egyptian chronology. Equally fundamental are the insights provided by the related disciplines of dendroecology and dendroclimatology. The Bronze Age eruption of Santorini and the AD 540 `event' are explored as fascinating case studies. Drawing on a further decade of research by himself and others, Mike Baille not only brings the pre-1980 story up to date, but demonstrates the wide and exciting applications of this comparatively new science.