The Eureka Incident eBook Brian Kahler
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Murder and Espionage in Canada’s High Arctic. Shortly after WWII the US and Canada established five Joint Arctic Weather Stations in Canada’s High Arctic. The uninhabited area was void of data for polar air masses which descend into populated areas of North America and made reliably accurate weather forecasts for aviation and the general public impossible. The weather stations were intended to fill this void and also be the platform for other scientific studies. At the beginning of the cold war and the race for nuclear supremacy, both the US and Russia were anxious to preserve the secrecy of their tactical might. Unbeknownst to the weather station staff in Eureka, an agent was posing as an employee and it was his intention to de-rail scientific programs which might jeopardize Soviet ambitions.
The Eureka Incident eBook Brian Kahler
The author of this book certainly used his first-hand knowledge of Canadian High Arctic conditions in fabricating his tale of this fictional cold war drama. I personally worked with Brian when he and I were young upper air observers at DEW Line site Hall Beach in 1966/67 and at Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit) in Canada's arctic. I worked at Resolute Bay, the jumping off point for travel to Eureka, from 1969 to 1973 and visited Eureka in February 1973. Brian used a photo of a painting that hung at the entrance to the weather office at Resolute when I was there to illustrate the cover of his novel. I did not know the details behind the painting at the time. I now do... It depicted a true event that occurred at Resolute Bay (I think in 1948 or 1949) where a radio operator was mauled by a polar bear. He survived the mauling, with serious injuries of course. He passed away from natural causes in the Spring of 2014. The other significant slant in the story described a fire at Eureka that destroyed the maintenance garage. I worked with another observer when I first arrived at Resolute Bay in 1969 who was at Eureka when the garage burned down. That observer told me that they had tried to put out the fire but, after they had discharged almost all the station's fire extinguishers, they had to just stand back and watch the building burn to the ground. Being so far away from man-made seismic noise sources and siting in areas with over 1500 feet of permafrost, the seismic station at Eureka (as well as those at Resolute and Alert) were quite capable of detecting underground nuclear weapons tests being conducted in the Soviet Union. I thought Brian did very good job of using these real events in spinning his fictional story. I might add that Hall Beach was a DEW Line main radar station so both Brian and I were very aware of the Cold War (and Cold War paranoia) when we were there as weather observers. Well written and kept my attention from the opening chapter to the end.Product details
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The Eureka Incident eBook Brian Kahler Reviews
The authors knowledge of the arctic makes the plot soooo believable! Can't put it down. Looking forward to more great reads from this author
The author of this book certainly used his first-hand knowledge of Canadian High Arctic conditions in fabricating his tale of this fictional cold war drama. I personally worked with Brian when he and I were young upper air observers at DEW Line site Hall Beach in 1966/67 and at Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit) in Canada's arctic. I worked at Resolute Bay, the jumping off point for travel to Eureka, from 1969 to 1973 and visited Eureka in February 1973. Brian used a photo of a painting that hung at the entrance to the weather office at Resolute when I was there to illustrate the cover of his novel. I did not know the details behind the painting at the time. I now do... It depicted a true event that occurred at Resolute Bay (I think in 1948 or 1949) where a radio operator was mauled by a polar bear. He survived the mauling, with serious injuries of course. He passed away from natural causes in the Spring of 2014. The other significant slant in the story described a fire at Eureka that destroyed the maintenance garage. I worked with another observer when I first arrived at Resolute Bay in 1969 who was at Eureka when the garage burned down. That observer told me that they had tried to put out the fire but, after they had discharged almost all the station's fire extinguishers, they had to just stand back and watch the building burn to the ground. Being so far away from man-made seismic noise sources and siting in areas with over 1500 feet of permafrost, the seismic station at Eureka (as well as those at Resolute and Alert) were quite capable of detecting underground nuclear weapons tests being conducted in the Soviet Union. I thought Brian did very good job of using these real events in spinning his fictional story. I might add that Hall Beach was a DEW Line main radar station so both Brian and I were very aware of the Cold War (and Cold War paranoia) when we were there as weather observers. Well written and kept my attention from the opening chapter to the end.
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