Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfeldt NielsenPublish date:7/27/2021Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231201773ISBN-10:023120177XUPC:9780231201773Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, United StatesBook Topic:United States, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCBY6PR853
Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231201773ISBN-10:023120177XUPC:9780231201773Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, United StatesBook Topic:United States, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCBY6PR853
Kristian H. Nielsen is associate professor at the Center for Science Studies at Aarhus University. He is coeditor of Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions (2012)
Henry Nielsen is associate professor emeritus at the Center for Science Studies at Aarhus University. With Kristian H. Nielsen and others, he is coauthor of Exploring Greenland: Cold...Publisher: Columbia University Press
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