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...long ago some U.S. strategic thinkers were talking about a World War III fought across the polar icecap. Their idea was probably premature. A transpolar war in the next decade is unlikely for two reasons: 1) equipment for it is not being developed fast enough; 2) some...
...cause of topography, meteorology and zoology, scores of ships, thousands of men, were swallowed by the Arctic. Sweden's Dr. Wulff, crossing the Greenland icecap with Rasmussen, became' too tired to eat; but as he crawled on, he "jotted down notes on the surrounding flora," dictated to his companion a concise summary of the local vegetation, and then said quietly: "Now I can go no further. . . . Will you find a place for me where I can lie down?" In 1930 John Courtauld, pioneer of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition, volunteered to remain snowed-in for an entire...
Water & Greenery. Last week, Kuiper focused his spectrometer on the gleaming icecap, dwindling fast in the Martian May. It turned out to be "water in the solid state" (ice, snow or hoarfrost). If it had been solid carbon dioxide (dry ice), it would have shown an entirely different spectrum...
...Alaska for $7,200,000 in 1867, is only 52 miles away. Arctic and Pacific defense looms large in U.S. military thinking, and Alaska looms large in both. As Alaska-based B-29s, with lipstick-red wings and tails (easily seen in case of forced landings on the polar icecap), fly routine missions over the North Pole, the Army & Navy are pumping men and millions of dollars into the Territory. At Mile 26 on the Richardson Highway near Fairbanks, the Army is rushing construction of one of the world's biggest airfields-a super super-bomber base with three...
...hellish scheme is penetrated by a humble tide-gauge watcher, who alerts U.S. President Place. Fortunately, Place knows a little more geology than Supreme Commissar Yang. Quickly he sends planes to atom-blast Greenland's icecap. Relieved of its ice burden, Greenland rises. (It probably would, too, in a few million years.) Author Heard's fine, cheerful finish: by migrating to the cool, temperate Greenland plateau, Americans, and other men of good will, survive...