Idealisten

2015

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January 21st 1968. An American B-52 bomber carrying nuclear warheads has just crashed on the polar ice near the US military Air Base in Danish controlled Thule, Greenland. A few days later, the US government classifies the crash as a Broken Arrow scenario (nuclear accident) but proclaims the situation as under control and no cause for concern in relation to radioactive contamination or violation of a foreign power’s sovereignty. Hundreds of Thule workers are set to work, helping in the gigantic clean-up operation. After eight months, all traces of the crashed aircraft and the plutonium-contaminated snow are gone. The case is closed. 18 years on, while covering a local workers compensation story, reporter Poul Brink, suddenly runs into suspicious circumstances linking back to the concealed nuclear accident.