Exploring Greenland: Cold War Science and Technology on Ice

.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.-

Author: Ronald E. Doel
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/25/2016
Pages: 311
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781137596871

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2017

About the Author

Ronald E. Doel is an Associate Professor of History at Florida State University, USA. He focuses on the history of recent science and technology.

Kristine C. Harper is an Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. She focuses on the history of recent science and technology.

Matthias Heymann is an Associate Professor of history of science and technology at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he studies the history of the atmospheric sciences. He served as Project Leader of "Exploring Greenland: Science and Technology in Cold War Settings," funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.