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Beneath Bústaðakirkja is a Bunker
I heard the rumour about a nuclear bunker underneath Bústaðakirkja some time in the summer of 2017. My friend was going through a Bubbi Morthens phase and mentioned the 1983 song Bústaðir, which includes the lyrics (roughly translated): “Beneath Bústaðakirkja, behind a steel…
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Iceland Disconnected: What if our submarine cables went bust?
It’s something out of a Hollywood blockbuster, or at least a symptom of some global crisis more central to the plot — be it zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or a cataclysmic global weather event. A world without internet. Have you ever…
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PHOTOS: It Begins… Dunkin’ Donuts Hits 101 Reykjavík!
Twenty two years after then-Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson took the first bite of the first McDonald’s burger served in Iceland, six years after McDonald’s left the country, announcing that franchises there had never paid off anyway, the finest U.S. fast food is…
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All Highly Unlikely
The freedom fighter Last things first: Styrmir Gunnarsson, former editor of Morgunblaðið, has published his memoirs from the Cold War. As reported, these disclose, among other things, that during most of the 1960s, Styrmir provided the Independence Party’s Chair and Minister of…
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Prime Minister And Mayor Employed Morgunblaðið’s Journalist To Spy On Socialists In 1960s
From 1961 to 1968, Styrmir Gunnarsson, later chief editor of Morgunblaðið, spied, in his capacity as the paper’s journalist, on Icelandic socialists, delivering regular reports to the Independence Party’s elected officials, including Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson, and possibly the U.S. Embassy. This…
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Reykjavík Turning Point In Cold War
The Reykjavík Summit in 1986 was a turning point in the Cold War, says former ambassador and diplomat Ken Adelman in his new book, ‘Reagan at Reykjavík’, in which he documents his own experience as a member of the US delegation to…