GREENLAND: WHEN WEATHER BECAME A WEAPON

Chesterton Radio · Sep 21, 2026 · 37m

Before Greenland became a fixture of modern geopolitics, millions of radio listeners already knew that this vast frozen island mattered.

In the 1930s, Greenland was the edge of the world—a forbidding wilderness where the famous Flying Hutchinson family came down during an audacious attempt to circle the globe.

Then, in April 1940, Germany invaded Denmark.

Almost overnight, Greenland became something else.

American radio began asking who would protect it. Wartime aircraft crossed its immense ice cap. A crashed B-17 left nine men fighting for survival while rescuers struggled for months to…