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Russia’s ambassador to Denmark has warned of “military and technical measures” if an armed conflict breaks out over Greenland ...
It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...
As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for nuclear missiles — underneath the ice in Greenland. Dubbed "Project Iceworm," the ...
The Arctic is no longer frozen in time. Ice is melting. Tensions are rising. And the world’s biggest powers are locking horns ...
Pharaonic military projects, each stretching for more than 3,000 miles, reflected deep Cold War fears that the Arctic was the ...
Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn’t a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a ...
This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than during the Cold War.
Contained in the new federal spending law formerly known as the "Big Beautiful Bill" is funding for 17 icebreakers, 21 ...
For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean's overall warming, fueling debate among scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the long ...
In the 1960s, an unexpected gift from the Air Force led Herb Weiss ’40 to develop an antenna that could track a speeding bullet 1,000 miles above Earth. And a radome Buckminster Fuller had helped ...
Greenland has given permission to a Canadian mining company to explore for molybdenum, a metal critical to the production of steel, amid growing demand from the defense industry.
The US trade war with China has a major sticking point: rare earths minerals. Last month, President Donald Trump said the United States needed Greenland “very badly,” renewing his threat to ...