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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1158389)	8/21/2019 8:01:35 PM
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When Truman offered to buy Greenland NATO hadn't been formed and we didn't have an airbase there. Truman and the Pentagon were not interested in Greenland because of any natural resources. It was for strategic defense because of location, and the heightened threat of the USSR post WWII. At that time, we did not have a base (and wouldn't until 1951 and NATO). In the late 1940s, the Soviet Union had just become the United States’ main adversary. The shortest distance between the two rival powers was over the North Pole, and the Arctic region started to look like a potential battleground. Greenland sat practically dead center between the population centers of the United States and several major cities in the U.S.S.R. To Pentagon strategists, that made Greenland a valuable piece of real estate. If the Soviets launched an attack, American bombers stationed on the island would already be halfway to Moscow. That wasn’t the only reason the Defense Department was shopping around for land in the Arctic. The possibility of conflict playing out in frozen polar regions meant that the American military had to figure out if its weapons and monitoring systems would even work in frigid climates. As Doel and other contributors write in “Exploring Greenland,” researchers weren’t quite sure how the northern lights, known as the aurora borealis, would affect navigational equipment and radio dispatches, or if the ice cap would muffle the seismic signals if the Soviets conducted nuclear tests. disq.us We have no need of that defense now because we've had Thule for almost seven decades.