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Homes are illuminated after the sunset in Tasiilaq, Greenland, late Friday, Aug. 16, 2019.
Danish PM: Trump’s idea of buying Greenland is ‘absurd’
Greenland is not for sale and U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea of buying the semi-autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic from Denmark is “an absurd discussion,” Denmark’s prime minister said.
By Jan M. Olsen, The Associated Press
50 years ago, a B-52 crashed in Greenland ... with 4 nuclear bombs on board
Fifty years ago, on Jan. 21, 1968, the Cold War grew significantly colder. It was on this day that an American B-52G Stratofortress bomber, carrying four nuclear bombs, crashed onto the sea ice of Wolstenholme Fjord in the northwest corner of Greenland, one of the coldest places on Earth. Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the Danes were not pleased.
By Timothy J. Jorgensen,  Georgetown University via AP/The Conversation