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...evidence comes from U.S. and Danish scientists working above the Arctic Circle at a remote encampment 120 miles east of Thule. For several years, they drilled through the 4,500-ft.-thick Greenland icecap, gathering cores, or cylindrical samples, that provide a remarkably accurate record of Greenland's weather. The cores consist of layers of ice, each representing a year's precipitation. They have remained virtually unchanged for centuries. By analyzing these layers, scientists have been able to reconstruct a climatic history that reaches back for 100,000 years...
...frigid ice sheet 7 miles from Thule, Greenland, last week, members of an Air Force recovery team continued their hunt for H-bomb parts and contaminated debris scattered by the crash of a B-52 SAC bomber last month. Searchers armed with scintillation counters came upon chunks of wreckage that caused their instruments to go off scale at their maximum 2 million counts-per-minute rate-indicating a level that was above the highest count recorded at the Palomares, Spain, crash site in 1966. To minimize the threat that the radiation poses to plant and animal life, the recovery operation...
...DETECTION. ADC has developed a radar network that includes the Pinetree Line along the northern U.S. border, the Mid-Canada Line, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line at the Arctic Circle, and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) bases at Clear, Alaska; Thule, Greenland; and Fyling-dales Moor, England. Under development: over-the-horizon radar capable of detecting missiles on actual launching from Russia or China, which will give the U.S. 30 minutes of warning instead of the present...
...women and children already there will be withdrawn by normal rotation. By early 1966, Gitmo will be in a class with such bleak outstations as Thule and Antarctica-a "hardship post," with tours of duty reduced from two years...
...Kiewit built it into one of the biggest in the world. Peter Kiewit Sons Co. now contracts on a global scale, and more often than not its gross annual volume heads the international list of contractors. Among other things, Kiewit has built the Air Force's base in Thule, Greenland, a giant radio telescope in West Virginia, a Titan missile base in California, Minuteman bases in North and South Dakota, a $1.2 billion AEC gaseous diffusion uranium processing plant in Ohio...