Cold Science

Stephen Bocking is a Professor with the Trent School of the Environment at Trent University, Canada. Daniel Heidt is the Research and Administration Manager at the Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism, St. Jerome's University, Canada.

List of Contributors



Part 1. Introductory perspectives

1. Introduction: Cold War science in the North American Arctic

Stephen Bocking and Daniel Heidt



Part 2. Strategic science

2. Ice and the depths of the ocean: probing Greenland's Melville Bay during the Cold War

Mark Nuttall



3. Leadership, cultures, the Cold War and the establishment of Arctic scientific stations: situating the Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS)

P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Daniel Heidt



4. Frontier footage: science and colonial attitudes on film in Northern Canada, 1948–1954

Matthew S. Wiseman



5. Portraying America's last frontier: Alaska in the media during the Second World War and the Cold War

Victoria Herrmann



6. Making 'Man in the Arctic': academic and military entanglements, 1944–49

Matthew Farish



Part 3. Cold War economies

7. Arctic pipelines and permafrost science: North American rivalries in the shadow of the Cold War, 1968–1982

Robert Page



8. Cold oil: linking strategic and resource science in the Canadian Arctic

Stephen Bocking



9. Icebergs in Iowa: Saudi dreams, Antarctic hydrologics and the production of Cold War environmental knowledge

Rafico Ruiz



10. Science and Indigenous knowledge in land claims settlements: negotiating the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, 1977–1978

Andrew Stuhl



Part 4. Science crossing borders

11. Knowledge base: polar explorers and the integration of science, security, and US foreign policy in Greenland, from the Great War to the Cold War

Dawn Alexandrea Berry



12. Institutions and the changing nature of Arctic research during the early Cold War

Lize-Marié van der Watt, Peder Roberts, and Julia Lajus



13. Rockets over Thule? American hegemony, ionosphere research and the politics of rockets in the wake of the 1968 Thule B-52 accident

Henrik Knudsen



14. Applied science and practical cooperation: Operation Morning Light and the recovery of Cosmos 954 in the Northwest Territories, 1978

P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Ryan Dean



15. Melting the ice curtain: indigeneity and the Alaska Siberia Medical Research Program, 1982–1988

Tess Lanzarotta



Part 5. Epilogue: global Cold War—the Antarctic and the Arctic

16. Antarctic science and the Cold War

Adrian Howkins



Index