Editing Greenland (section)

===Military===
{{Main|Military of Greenland}}
[[File:Thule air base above.jpeg|thumb|The United States has operated [[Pituffik Space Base]], originally Thule Air Base, since the 1950s.]]
Greenland does not have its own military. As a territory of Denmark, the [[Danish military]] is responsible for Greenland's defence and the island is within the area overseen by the [[NATO]] military alliance. The [[Joint Arctic Command]] is the Danish military branch responsible for Greenland. It includes several patrol ships, [[maritime patrol aircraft]], helicopters, and the elite [[Sirius Dog Sled Patrol]]. The Danish military has personnel based at [[Nuuk]], [[Kangerlussuaq]], [[Daneborg]], [[Station Nord]], [[Mestersvig]], [[Grønnedal]], and a liaison detachment at [[Pituffik Space Base|Thule Air Base]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Arctic |url=https://www.fmn.dk/en/topics/national-tasks/arctic/ |website=[[Danish Ministry of Defence]] |date=19 February 2021}}</ref>

There is also one [[United States military]] base in Greenland: [[Pituffik Space Base]] (previously Thule Air Base), which is home to the [[United States Space Force]]'s global network of sensors providing missile warning, space surveillance and space control to [[North American Aerospace Defense Command|North American Aerospace Defence Command]] (NORAD). Elements of the sensor systems are commanded and controlled variously by Space Deltas [[Space Delta 2|2]], [[Space Delta 4|4]], and [[Space Delta 6|6]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 August 2019 |title=Trump reportedly wants to 'buy' Greenland. This is what it's like at the US's Arctic base there |work=Business Insider |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/serve-at-thule-air-base-in-greenland-2019-8 |url-status=live |access-date=19 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819203046/https://www.businessinsider.com/serve-at-thule-air-base-in-greenland-2019-8 |archive-date=19 August 2019}}</ref> Formerly there had been several U.S. bases in Greenland. The 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement allowed the United States to keep its military bases there, and to establish new bases with the consent of Greenland and Denmark, if deemed necessary by NATO.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Weber |editor1-first=Joachim |title=Handbook on Geopolitics and Security in the Arctic |date=2020 |publisher=Springer |page=79}}</ref>

In 1995, a political scandal in Denmark occurred after a report revealed the government had given tacit permission for [[Nuclear weapons of the United States|nuclear weapons]] to be located in Greenland, in contravention of Denmark's 1957 [[nuclear-free zone]] policy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hansen |first=H. C. |author-link=H. C. Hansen |date=16 November 1957 |title=Danish Prime Minister Gives Tacit Go-Ahead For U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Greenland |url=http://www.nautilus.org/archives/library/security/foia/DKhansen57.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106145717/http://www.nautilus.org/archives/library/security/foia/DKhansen57.html |archive-date=6 November 2007 |access-date=20 March 2009 |publisher=The Nautilus Institute}}</ref><ref name="h-bomb">{{Cite news |date=21 January 2018 |title=Cataclysmic cargo: The hunt for four missing nuclear bombs after a B-52 crash |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/21/cataclysmic-cargo-the-hunt-for-four-missing-nuclear-bombs-after-a-b-52-crash/?noredirect=on |access-date=20 August 2019 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607060100/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/21/cataclysmic-cargo-the-hunt-for-four-missing-nuclear-bombs-after-a-b-52-crash/?noredirect=on |url-status=live}}</ref> The United States built a secret nuclear powered base, called [[Camp Century]], in the Greenland ice sheet.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 March 2019 |title=A Top-Secret US Military Base Will Melt Out of the Greenland Ice Sheet |work=VICE Magazine |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/cold-war-era-nuclear-base-camp-century-melting-climate-change-greenland/ |url-status=live |access-date=20 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820161848/https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/d3wdb7/cold-war-era-nuclear-base-camp-century-melting-climate-change-greenland |archive-date=20 August 2019}}</ref> On 21 January 1968, a B-52G, with four nuclear bombs aboard as part of [[Operation Chrome Dome]], [[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash|crashed on the ice]] of the North Star Bay while attempting an emergency landing at [[Pituffik Space Base|Thule Air Base]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 November 2008 |title=The Cold War's Missing Atom Bombs |work=Der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-nuclear-needle-in-a-haystack-the-cold-war-s-missing-atom-bombs-a-590513.html |url-status=live |access-date=20 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627105727/https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-nuclear-needle-in-a-haystack-the-cold-war-s-missing-atom-bombs-a-590513.html |archive-date=27 June 2019}}</ref> The resulting fire caused extensive radioactive contamination.<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 June 2019 |title=US B-52 nuclear bomber crash in Greenland 51 years ago has ill Danes seeking compensation |work=Fox News |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-b-52-nuclear-bomber-crash-in-greenland-51-years-ago-has-ill-danes-seeking-compensation |url-status=live |access-date=20 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608024754/https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-b-52-nuclear-bomber-crash-in-greenland-51-years-ago-has-ill-danes-seeking-compensation |archive-date=8 June 2019}}</ref> One of the [[Thermonuclear weapon|H-bombs]] remains lost.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Corera |first=Gordon |date=10 November 2008 |title=Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb |publisher=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7720049.stm |access-date=22 August 2019 |archive-date=23 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023165716/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7720049.stm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=11 November 2008 |title=US left nuclear weapon under ice in Greenland |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greenland/3439318/US-left-nuclear-weapon-under-ice-in-Greenland.html |url-status=live |access-date=20 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820163632/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greenland/3439318/US-left-nuclear-weapon-under-ice-in-Greenland.html |archive-date=20 August 2019}}</ref>