1. The proceedings of the conference were published as National Academy of Sciences, Arctic Sea Ice: Proceedings of the Conference Conducted by the Division of Earth Sciences and Supported by the Office of Naval Research (Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Publication 598, 1958).
2. See, most notably, Ronald E. Doel, “Constituting the Postwar Earth Sciences: The Military’s Influence on the Environmental Sciences in the USA after 1945,” Social Studies of Science 33 (5) 2003: 635–666.
3. See, for instance, Nikolaj Petersen, “SAC at Thule: Greenland in the US Polar Strategy,” Journal of Cold War Studies 13 (2) 2011: 90–115.
4. On Zubov’s importance to American scholars, see for instance Sverker Sörlin and Julia Lajus, ”An Ice-Free Arctic Sea? The Science of Sea Ice and its Interests,” in Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson, and Nina Wormbs (eds), Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change When the Ice Breaks (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 70–92.
5. Much has been written on the International Geophysical Year. Notable works include Walter Sullivan, Assault on the Unknown: The International Geophysical Year (New York: McGraw Hill, 1961);