ABSTRACT
This volume examines the history of science in the North American Arctic during the Cold War. Scientific activities in Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland formed part of a global effort to study the Earth, as a means of enabling surveillance and enhancing operational capabilities in preparation for global conflict. Strategic science also formed relations with other priorities, including economic development and environmental protection. Strategic research in the Arctic can be understood in this global context, but also in terms of environmental and political conditions that were specific to the region.
