Following the end of the Cold War, Greenland has played a limited role in global security policy. Nevertheless, an intensive debate has taken place in the Danish media about Greenland’s role in the Cold War, with a significant polarization of opinion concerning the American presence in Greenland. This debate and the discussion about openness in the existing sources on the subject gave rise to the preparation of a 1997 report from the nongovernmental Danish Institute of International Affairs, Greenland During the Cold War, on U.S. overflights of Greenland with atomic weapons and the role of Thule Air Base during the period from 1945 to 1968.