ABSTRACT
This chapter tells the story of how American and Canadian civilian and military personnel covered tremendous distances and endured frigid temperatures to survey a wide area of northern Canada for radioactive contamination caused by a malfunctioned Soviet spy satellite. A combination of civilian scientific expertise and military capabilities succeeded in effectively locating and recovering the remnants of the downed nuclear-powered satellite. While a modest story of bilateral scientific cooperation, it is also an important case study in how government action during the Cold War could be channeled constructively to prevent toxic legacies.
