As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...

Greenland is a massive land with a tiny population, and it relies on fishing, government support, and Denmark’s financial aid to survive. But why are global superpowers suddenly so interested in this ...

Greenland is onethird as large as the continental United States with ice a mile thick covering 90% of the island. A full meltdown of the Greenland Ice Cap would cause all world oceans to rise 20 feet.

The most serious bid to incorporate Greenland was made in 1946, when former President Harry S. Truman made a post-World War II offer to buy the island from Denmark for $100 million in gold, which ...

Denmark Leader Visits Greenland in Trump Tug-of-War. Published Apr 02, 2025 at 5:52 AM EDT Updated Apr 02, 2025 at 5:56 AM EDT. By . Shane Croucher is a Breaking News Editor based in London, UK.

Uummannaq, a tiny town on a remote island in northwest Greenland, sits 600 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. From Cold War military bases to modern Arctic ambitions, Greenland’s strategic ...

The U.S. has retained bases in Greenland since the war, and the Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Force Base, supports missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance operations for ...

Finally, the almost-certain illegality of any attempt to seize Greenland against the will of its people and the Danish government means that if Trump directs the U.S. military to engage in such an ...

Greenland’s size — 836,330 square miles — also offers Mr. Trump, a former Manhattan developer, the chance to clinch what he may see as one of history’s greatest real estate deals.

This war over weather intelligence helped reignite U.S. interest in Greenland. Germany occupied Denmark, enabling it to receive data from Danish weather stations on the island.

As the Cold War heated up, the American occupation of Greenland expanded. The sprawling U.S. airfield at Thule , only about 2,800 miles from Moscow, housed atomic weapons and 10,000 men.