Why Was Iceland On The Front Lines Of The Cold War? | Iceland: Cold War Frontier | Timeline

The Cold War was a truly global conflict, but one area of the map that sometimes gets ignored is the small island nation of Iceland. Find out how this small, artic nation found itself on the front lines between east and west during the second half of the 20th century.

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