World War Two and Cold War
Figure 1: A map showing the Distant Early Warning line, the black dots show radar locations. Source: http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/542d6f2c6da811 2815701308-680-560/arctic-ice-9.jpg
The Arctic is not a region that is new to military conflict, it is important to look at the history of the Arctic to view at examples of where the Arctic nations could both cooperate and be in conflict with each other in the past. World War Two gave an example of where the Arctic states could cooperate with each other. During World War Two, the arctic was used as a supply route to the Soviet Union after Nazi Germany invaded in June 1941. The allied ships sailed around northern Norway to the ports of Murmansk and Archangel in the Soviet Union. Conditions showed how severe the Arctic is, as the loss rate for Allied ships was
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