Camp Century

When a Cold War historian is found dead, close to an abandoned American base, Constable David Maratse must search the ice tunnels to find the suspect before they die from exposure. Camp Century is the eleventh in a series of novellas to feature Constable David Maratse in Greenland. Each novella is set during Maratse's career as a police constable, and features aspects of Greenlandic culture, tradition, and not least the stunning natural environment. The series includes: Katabatic Container Tupilaq The Last Flight The Heart that was a Wild Garden Qivittoq The Thunder Spirits Iluliaq Scrimshaw Asiaq Camp Century You can read more about David Maratse in The Greenland Trilogy of action thrillers, starting with The Ice Star , and in his own series of Greenland Crime novels, starting with Seven Graves, One Winter . Seven Graves, One Winter is the first full novel featuring Greenlandic Police Constable David Maratse. The Greenland Crime series includes: Seven Graves, One Winter Blood Floe We Shall Be Monsters Inside the Bear's Cage

When a Cold War historian is found dead, close to an abandoned American base, Constable David Maratse must search the ice tunnels to find the suspect before they die from exposure. Camp Century is the eleventh in a series of novellas to feature Constable David Maratse in Greenland. Each novella is set during Maratse's career as a police constable, and features aspects of Greenlandic culture, tradition, and not least the stunning natural environment. The series includes: Katabatic Container Tupilaq The Last Flight The Heart that was a Wild Garden Qivittoq The Thunder Spirits Iluliaq Scrimshaw Asiaq Camp Century You can read more about David Maratse in The Greenland Trilogy of action thrillers, starting with The Ice Star , and in his own series of Greenland Crime novels, starting with Seven Graves, One Winter . Seven Graves, One Winter is the first full novel featuring Greenlandic Police Constable David Maratse. The Greenland Crime series includes: Seven Graves, One Winter Blood Floe We Shall Be Monsters Inside the Bear's Cage

Midt under den kolde krig gik den amerikanske hær i al hemmelighed i gang med at bygge en militærbase dybt inde i Grønlands indlandsis. Officielt var Camp Century en forskningsstation. Men det langsigtede mål var potentielt altødelæggende. USA ville rette 600 atomsprænghoveder mod Sovjetunionen. I 1966, efter kun seks år, opgav amerikanerne det kontroversielle projekt og forlod lejren. Alligevel har Camp Century flere gange nedkølet de politiske og diplomatiske relationer mellem USA, Grønland og Danmark. Camp Century er den første samlede danske fortælling om ”byen under isen”. Videnskabshistorikerne Henry Nielsen og Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen præsenterer Camp Centurys historie fra efterkrigstiden til i dag og forfølger både storpolitik, hemmelige notater, iskerneboringer, pressens interesse, hverdagen under isen og de lurende miljøproblemer, som en dag vil smelte frem af den grønlandske iskappe.

Midt under den kolde krig gik den amerikanske hær i al hemmelighed i gang med at bygge en militærbase dybt inde i Grønlands indlandsis. Officielt var Camp Century en forskningsstation. Men det langsigtede mål var potentielt altødelæggende. USA ville rette 600 atomsprænghoveder mod Sovjetunionen. I 1966, efter kun seks år, opgav amerikanerne det kontroversielle projekt og forlod lejren. Alligevel har Camp Century flere gange nedkølet de politiske og diplomatiske relationer mellem USA, Grønland og Danmark. Camp Century er den første samlede danske fortælling om ”byen under isen”. Videnskabshistorikerne Henry Nielsen og Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen præsenterer Camp Centurys historie fra efterkrigstiden til i dag og forfølger både storpolitik, hemmelige notater, iskerneboringer, pressens interesse, hverdagen under isen og de lurende miljøproblemer, som en dag vil smelte frem af den grønlandske iskappe.

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. Drawing on sources including top-secret memos and never-before-seen photographic evidence, they follow the intertwining threads of high-level politics, ice-core research, media representations, daily life beneath the ice, and the specter of long-buried environmental problems that will one day resurface. Camp Century reveals a hidden chapter of Cold War history—and why, as the Greenland ice cap slowly melts, this story is not yet over.

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. Drawing on sources including top-secret memos and never-before-seen photographic evidence, they follow the intertwining threads of high-level politics, ice-core research, media representations, daily life beneath the ice, and the specter of long-buried environmental problems that will one day resurface. Camp Century reveals a hidden chapter of Cold War history—and why, as the Greenland ice cap slowly melts, this story is not yet over.