Ice and Snow in the Cold War

Julia Herzberg is a research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center and DAAD fellow at the German Historical Institute Moscow.Christian Kehrt studied history and philosophy at the universities of Tubingen and Stony Brook, NY.Franziska Torma is research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, and currently John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

• List of IllustrationsINTRODUCTIONSExploring Ice and Snow in the Cold WarJulia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska TormaCryo-history: Ice, Snow, and the Great AccelerationSverker SoerlinPART I: SCIENCE: SITES OF KNOWLEDGEChapter 1. Snow and Avalanche Research as Patriotic Duty? The Institutionalization of a Scientific Discipline in SwitzerlandDania AchermannChapter 2. "An Orgy of Hypothesizing": The Construction of Glaciological Knowledge in Cold War AmericaJanet Martin-NielsenChapter 3. "Camp Century" and "Project Iceworm": Greenland as a Stage for US Military Service RivalriesIngo HeidbrinkChapter 4. Inuit Responses to Arctic Militarization: Examples from East GreenlandSophie ElixhauserPART II: POLITICS OF CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATIONChapter 5. Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: Cold War Rivalries and the Antarctic and Outer Space TreatiesRoger D. LauniusChapter 6. An Environment Too Extreme? The Case of BouvetoyaPeder Roberts and Lize-Marie van der WattChapter 7. Managing the "White Death" in Cold War Soviet Union: Snow Avalanches, Ice Science, and Winter Sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s-1980sMarc EliePART III: CULTURES AND NARRATIVES OF ICE AND SNOWChapter 8. Laboratory Metaphors in Antarctic History: From Nature to SpaceSebastian Vincent GrevsmuhlChapter 9. Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable SnowmanCarolin F. Roeder and Gregory AfinogenovChapter 10. Negotiating "Coldness": The Natural Environment and Community Cohesion in Cold War Molotovsk-SeverodvinskEkaterina Emeliantseva KollerChapter 11. An Exploration of the Self: Reinhold Messner's Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1989Pascal SchillingsConclusion: Histories of Extreme Environments beyond the Cold WarJulia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska TormaIndex

"Collectively, the geographically diverse case studies in Ice and Snow in the Cold War address a topic that is important but relatively understudied. The book moves both environmental history and Cold War studies in intriguing new directions." - Matthew Farish, University of Toronto