Page:Longines Chronicles with Bernt Balkin 1954 ARC-96011.ogv/18

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Lesueur
Well, Colonel, without breaching any security regulations, can we ask you just what is up on that Thule airbase?

Balchen
It's a city in itself up in the High Arctic, there's a military installation, as we said, built there for the sole purpose of the defense of our continent. Whether the defense is a pure defensive operation or it's an offensive defense operation, well that is as the situation will call for it.