NASA scientists were looking for the bed of the ice when they stumbled across the base, which was built during the Cold War.

What is the American Arctic, and what’s its role in our national identity? What kind of research is essential to meet the needs of Arctic communities, and the health and well-being of their people?

It’s 1962. Cold War tensions bristle between Washington and Moscow. Forced to enlist by the United States military, a young physician reluctantly cuts short his medical residency at New York’s ...