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 perspectives1. Introduction: Cold War science in the North American ArcticStephen Bocking and Daniel HeidtPart 2. Strategic science2. Ice and the depths of the ocean: probing Greenland's Melville Bay during the Cold WarMark Nuttall3. Leadership, cultures, the Cold War and the establishment of Arctic scientific stations: situating the Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS)P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Daniel Heidt4. Frontier footage: science and colonial attitudes on film in Northern Canada, 1948–1954Matthew S. Wiseman5. Portraying America's last frontier: Alaska in the media during the Second World War and the Cold WarVictoria Herrmann6. Making 'Man in the Arctic': academic and military entanglements, 1944–49Matthew FarishPart 3. Cold War economies7. Arctic pipelines and permafrost science: North American rivalries in the shadow of the Cold War, 1968–1982Robert Page8. Cold oil: linking strategic and resource science in the Canadian ArcticStephen Bocking9. Icebergs in Iowa: Saudi dreams, Antarctic hydrologics and the production of Cold War environmental knowledgeRafico Ruiz10. Science and Indigenous knowledge in land claims settlements: negotiating the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, 1977–1978Andrew StuhlPart 4. Science crossing borders11. Knowledge base: polar explorers and the integration of science, security, and US foreign policy in Greenland, from the Great War to the Cold WarDawn Alexandrea Berry12. Institutions and the changing nature of Arctic research during the early Cold WarLize-Marié van der Watt, Peder Roberts, and Julia Lajus13. Rockets over Thule? American hegemony, ionosphere research and the politics of rockets in the wake of the 1968 Thule B-52 accidentHenrik Knudsen14. Applied science and practical cooperation: Operation Morning Light and the recovery of Cosmos 954 in the Northwest Territories, 1978P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Ryan Dean15. Melting the ice curtain: indigeneity and the Alaska Siberia Medical Research Program, 1982–1988Tess LanzarottaPart 5. Epilogue: global Cold War—the Antarctic and the Arctic16. Antarctic science and the Cold WarAdrian HowkinsIndex

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