The US and Greenland blog is after this summary of postings during the week:
1] STORM'S PUBLICATIONS:
i) Reclaiming Malaysia's Growth Trajectory ;
ii) Creative destruction for inclusive growth ;
iii) Seven mischances of nation building .
2] csloh.substack:
a) Carving a proxy state from Myanmar ;
b) Structural Deficiencies Hindering Equitable Development ;
c) Malay pupils in Chinese schools ;
d) Trump's Middle East tours ;
e) Creative Destruction in the Malaysian economy ;
f) Malaysia failed in nation building ;
g) Path to China-Taiwan reunification .
3] rainstorm productions: Religiosity and Governance ; ASEAN multi-pronged proactive strategy ; Structural Deficiencies Hindering Equitable Development ; BRICS and the Multipolarity World; Creative Destruction in Malaysia ; Diversity through Islamic-Confucian ethics ; 36 Stratagems and Mahathir's big umbrella.
4] MOMENTUM #254.
5] US and Greenland:
Greenland “Green Light”: Danish PM’s Secret Acquiescence
Encouraged U.S. Nuclear Deployments
Pentagon Approved Nuclear-Armed B-52 Flights Over Greenland
State Department: U.S. Can Do “Almost Anything, Literally, That We Want to in Greenland”
Danish Officials Worried About Danger of U.S. Nuclear Accidents
Washington, D.C., June 3, 2025 - The Trump administration’s intention to acquire Greenland, including possibly by force, has put a focus on the history of its strategic interest to U.S. policymakers. Today, the National Security Archive publishes the first of a two-part declassified document collection on the U.S. role in Greenland during the middle years of the Cold War, covering the decisions that led to the secret deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in the Danish colony in 1958 to the 1968 crash of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber near Thule Air Base that left plutonium-laced debris scattered across miles of Arctic sea ice.
The radioactive mess caused by the accident required a major clean-up and caused a serious controversy in U.S.-Denmark relations. The U.S. had never officially told Denmark that it was flying nuclear weapons over Greenland, although Danish officials suspected it; nor had the U.S. informed the Danes that it had once stored nuclear weapons in Greenland, although in 1957 they had received a tacit “green light” to do so from the Danish prime minister, according to documents included in today’s posting. But both the nuclear-armed overflights of Greenland and the storage of nuclear weapons there were in strong contradiction to Denmark’s declared non-nuclear policy. When the bomber crash exposed the overflights, Denmark tried to resolve the conflict by seeking a U.S. pledge that Greenland would be nuclear free.
This new publication revisits the nuclear and strategic history of the United States and Greenland as it emerged during the late 1940s through the crash in 1968, highlighting key declassified documents from the archival record, FOIA releases, the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA), and other sources. Part I looks at U.S. strategic interests in Greenland in the early Cold War period, including Danish government acquiescence to the storage of nuclear weapons there, U.S. nuclear-armed airborne alert flights over Greenland, and the 1968 B-52 accident.
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