The USCGC Berthold provides security in the Arctic near Barrow, Alaska. Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times
In A Warming Arctic, US Faces New Security Concerns -- Stars and Stripes/L.A. Times
BARROW, Alaska — In past years, these remote gray waters of the Alaskan Arctic saw little more than the occasional cargo barge and Eskimo whaling boat. No more.
This summer, when the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bertholf was monitoring shipping traffic along the desolate tundra coast, its radar displays were often brightly lighted with mysterious targets.
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