CIAO DATE: 10/2009
September 2009
Danish Institute for International Studies
In a letter dated 6 January 2009, the Danish foreign minister, Per Stig Møller, asked DIIS to draw up a report based on the documentary evidence concerning the 1968 crash of a B-52 bomber a few miles from Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland. The B-52 had four hydrogen bombs on board. For more than four decades, the official American and Danish explanations have consistently stated that all four nuclear weapons were destroyed in the accident. The foreign minister’s initiative was caused by a debate in the Parliament (Folketing) over some programmes and articles carried by the BBC on November 10 and 11, 2008. Seven years earlier, in 2001, the BBC journalist Gordon Corera had received 348 documents on the Thule accident from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) archival facility in Las Vegas.
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