was discontinued. By January 1968, the population of Thule was down to 3,370. On 21 January 1968, a B-52G bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed just outside Thule.

Thule is the location where the fastest recorded sea level surface wind speed in the world was measured when a peak speed of 333 km/h 0 abbr=on was recorded on 8 March 1972, immediately prior to the instrument's destruction.

Air Force Space Command

Thule became an Air Force Space Command base in 1982. The

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