EAN: 9780231201773

Bilder-Quelle: discount24.de - Sport-Freizeit

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.

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