The US military has cared about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War, for good reason
Story by Paul Bierman • 1d
In 1957, Hollywood released "The Deadly Mantis," a B-grade monster movie starring a praying mantis of nightmare proportions. Its premise: Melting Arctic ice has released a very hungry, million-year-old megabug, and scientists and the U.S. military will have to stop it.
The rampaging insect menaces America's Arctic military outposts, part of a critical line of national defense, before heading south and meeting its end in New York City.
Yes, it's over-the-top fiction, but the movie holds some truth about the U.S. military's concerns then and now about the Arctic's stability and its role in national security.
In the late 1940s, Arctic temperatures were warming and the Cold War was heating up. The U.S. military had grown increasingly nervous about a Soviet invasion across the Arctic. It built bases and a line of radar stations. The movie used actual military footage of these polar outposts.
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