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Greenland to ask US about nuclear bomb jet crash: PM
Copenhagen (AFP) Aug 4, 2009 Greenland's Prime Minister Kuupik Kleist said Tuesday he would ask the United States for information on the crash of an American nuclear bomb-loaded jet near the island 40 years ago. Kleist is to ask for access to documents which contain details of possible radioactive contamination after the 1968 crash of a US B-52 bomber near the American air base of Thule, in northern Greenland. "It will be in the interests of the three lands (Denmark, Greenland and the United States) that this matter is finished," he told Greenland radio station KNR. Greenland is an autonomous Danish territory, with limited self-rule. The leader added he would ask for documents showing "definitive results" of radiation levels around the downed aircraft during the clean-up operation. The request is the latest effort to draw a line under four decades of speculation on the crash of the jet, which was carrying four nuclear bombs. It followed the publication of a Denmark-commissioned report Monday which sought to shed light on the incident, but it remained unclear what levels of radioactive contamination were caused by the crash. Many on the island believed a bomb still lay hidden under the waters off Greenland but the Danish Institute for International Studies report strongly refuted this idea. It said the four bombs were destroyed in the crash. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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