Thule Air Base, North-West Greenland

Thule Air Base is the U.S. Armed Forces’ northernmost installation, surrounded by arctic environment offering spectacular scenery,including majestic icebergs in the North Star Bay. On January 21, 1968, a US military plane with nuclear weapons crashed and burned on the ice near Thule Air Base. The impact detonated the high explosives in the primary units…

  • Produced by:
    Peter Prokosch
  • Year:
    01/03/2013

Thule Air Base, North-West Greenland

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