Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ice Station Zebra is a 1963 thriller novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean.It marked a return to MacLean's classic Arctic setting. After completing this novel, whose plot line parallels real-life events during the Cold War, MacLean retired from writing for three years.
Cold-weather warfare, also known as cold-region warfare, arctic warfare or winter warfare, encompasses military operations affected by snow, ice, thawing conditions, or cold, both on land and at sea, as well as the strategies and tactics used by military forces in these situations and environments.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
“America and Britain play cold-war games with Russia in the Arctic.” That headline sums up a situation growing steadily more ominous. The message is not current, but rather from two years ago ...
The planetary consequences of that war have, by now, reached far beyond the disruption of climate efforts in Europe, where gas shortages have prompted governments to recommission coal plants.
The shortest, or great circle, route for a Soviet air attack on North America was through the Arctic, across the area around the North Pole.The DEW Line was built during the Cold War to give early warning of a Soviet nuclear strike, to allow time for United States bombers to get off the ground and land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) to be launched, to reduce the chances that ...
Green said high-ranking naval officers have warned the committee that Russia is trying to militarize the Arctic region, with the movement of Russian ships putting the U.S. Navy on heightened ...
Camp Century was an Arctic United States military scientific research base in Greenland, [1] situated 240 km (150 mi) east of Pituffik Space Base.When built, Camp Century was publicized as a demonstration for affordable ice-cap military outposts and a base for scientific research.