A strait 320 kilometers 200 mi wide would let the japan current melt the arctic ocean.
Melting the ice curtain.
In the 21st century a 300 kilometer 190 mi dam has also been proposed however the aim of the proposal is to preserve the arctic ice cap against global warming.
The extraordinary story.
The russian meeting was the first of a two part effort towards a larger reunion on little diomede next year.
Just five years after a soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the north pacific an alaska airlines jet braved cold war tensions to fly into tomorrow.
Melting the ice curtain.
The extraordinary story of citizen diplomacy on the russia alaska frontier kindle edition by ramseur david.
Long time alaska journalist david ramseur relies on his 15 visits to russia to tell a story of inspiration courage and persistence in his book melting the ice curtain.
David ramseur was a first hand witness to the danger and political intrigue having flown on that first friendship flight and having spent thirty years behind the scenes with some of alaska.
David ramseur was a first hand witness to the danger and political intrigue having flown on that first friendship flight and having spent thirty years behind the scenes with some of alaska.
The extraordinary story of citizen diplomacy on the russia alaska frontier.
Melting the ice curtain.
Melting the ice curtain.
Melting the ice curtain is the dramatic story of how inspiration courage and persistence by alaskan and russian citizen diplomats stared down the cold war to bridge a widening gap in superpower relations a model sorely needed today.
It s a story of danger where goodwill missions contemplate the worst while crossing into restricted airspace and waters.
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Melting the ice curtain tells the story of how inspiration courage and persistence by citizen diplomats bridged a widening gap in superpower relations.
Melting the ice curtain dramatically shows how people of the arctic have surmounted enormous obstacles to achieve high levels of cooperation a model needed today for 40 years cold war politics banned alaska and russia indigenous peoples from practicing the sacred traditions they had pursued across the bering strait since time immemorial.
It s a plan that continues to be complicated by the increasingly tense political relations between the us and russia since the crisis in ukraine the ice curtain has hardened again.
The extraordinary story of citizen diplomacy on the russia alaska frontier.
Melting the ice curtain tells the story of how inspiration courage and persistence by citizen diplomats bridged a widening gap in superpower relations.