Exploring Greenland

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Exploring Greenland’s Secrets: Science, Technology, Diplomacy, and Cold War Planning in Global Contexts....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Defending the North American Continent: Why the Physical Environmental Sciences Mattered in Cold War Greenland....Pages 25-46
Small State Preoccupations: Science and Technology in the Pursuit of Modernization, Security, and Sovereignty in Greenland....Pages 47-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
In Search of Control: Arctic Weather Stations in the Early Cold War....Pages 75-98
Security and the Nation: Glaciology in Early Cold War Greenland....Pages 99-118
Uncommon Grounds: Danish and American Perspectives on Greenland’s Geology (1946–1960)....Pages 119-141
Battling the Aurora Borealis: The Transnational Coproduction of Ionospheric Research in Early Cold War Greenland....Pages 143-165
Danish Seismic Research in Relation to American Nuclear Detection Efforts....Pages 167-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Camp Century—Cold War City Under the Ice....Pages 195-216
Cold War Greenland as a Space for International Scientific Collaboration....Pages 217-239
Cold Atoms: The Hunt for Uranium in Greenland in the Late Cold War and Beyond....Pages 241-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-311