Diplomatic Deep-Freeze

About the Book

Diplomatic Deep-Freeze goes back in time to relate John Pauley’s first experiences in the US Foreign Service before his adventures described in earlier books take place. He accompanies an official delegation from Washington on its visit to Antarctica. He falls into a crevasse of a glacier, bands penguins, meets an overbearing American astronaut, and sorts whale bones with the resident naturalist. He also runs across what appears to be one country’s research station for making nuclear weapons, strictly forbidden by the Antarctic Treaty, which has put nuclear weapons in a diplomatic deep-freeze there.

About the Author

About the Author Robert G. Morris is from Des Moines and has a PhD in physics from Iowa State University. After teaching and doing research, he joined the US Foreign Service in 1974 and worked on nuclear nonproliferation, science cooperation, and environmental issues in Washington, Paris, Bonn, Buenos Aires, and Madrid. He has three sons; Beverly, his wife of fifty-nine years, died in 2014. The author dedicates this book to her memory.