Exploring Greenland: Cold War Science and Technology on Ice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137596871)

.Introduction Exploring Greenland's Secrets: Science, Technology, Diplomacy, and Cold War Planning in Global Contexts Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann.-

.Part One Arctic Challenges in the Cold War.-

.Chapter 1 Defending the North American Continent: Why the Physical Environmental Sciences Mattered in Cold War Greenland Ronald E. Doel.-

.Chapter 2 Small state preoccupations: science and technology in the pursuit of modernization, security, and sovereignty in Greenland Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen.-

.Part Two Controlling Hostile Environments: Geophysical Research in Greenland.-

.Chapter 3 Searching for Control: Weather Stations and Data in the Early Cold War Matthias Heymann.-

.Chapter 4 Security and the nation: Glaciology in Early Cold War Greenland Janet Martin-Nielsen.-

.Chapter 5 Failed Geologies: Danish and American Agendas for the Geological Investigation of Greenland, 1946-1960 Christopher Jacob Ries.-

.Chapter 6 Battling the Aurora Borealis: The Transnational Coproduction of Ionospheric Research in Early Cold War Greenland Henrik Knudsen.-

.Chapter 7 Danish Seismic Research in Relation to American Nuclear Detection Efforts Anne Lif Lund Jacobsen.-

.Part ThreeEntanglement and Transformation: Diplomacy and Politics of Science in Greenland.-

.Chapter 8 Camp Century - Cold War City under the Ice Henry Nielsen and Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen.-

.Chapter 9 Cold War Greenland as a Space for International Scientific Collaboration Henrik Knudsen.-

.Chapter 10 Cold Atoms: The Hunt for Uranium in Greenland in the Late Cold War and Beyond (1970-1989)Henry Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen.-