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Camp Century was an Arctic United States military scientific research base in Greenland, [1] situated 240 km (150 mi) east of Pituffik Space Base.When built, Camp Century was publicized as a demonstration for affordable ice-cap military outposts and a base for scientific research.
[4] [5] The radar and air base at Thule had been active since 1951. Camp Century was described at the time as a demonstration of affordable ice-cap military outposts. The secret Project Iceworm was to be a system of tunnels 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) in length, used to deploy up to 600 nuclear missiles, that would be able to reach the Soviet ...
Camp Century was a U.S. military base constructed in 1959 within the Greenland ice sheet with a network of tunnels and infrastructure. According to NASA, it is known as the "city under the ice."
The pact specified that the two nations would arrange for the use of facilities in Greenland by NATO forces in defense of the NATO area known as the Greenland Defense Area. Thule Air Base was constructed in secret under the code name Operation Blue Jay, but the project was made public in September 1952. Construction for Thule Air Base began in ...
NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice.". In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found ...
Deep within the Arctic Circle in Greenland sits one of the US's most isolated, and potentially critical, air bases: Thule Air Base.
A fire broke out in the navigator's compartment of a USAF B-52 near Thule Air Base, Greenland. The bomber crashed 7 miles (11 km) from the airbase, rupturing the bomber's bomb bay and causing the conventional explosives in the four B28FI thermonuclear bombs to detonate, fragmenting and spreading the radioactive primary and secondary components ...
The primary mission of the 12th SWS is to provide critical, real-time missile warning, defense, and space surveillance to the President of the United States, Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NORAD, and unified commands by operating a phased-array radar—which continuously provides warning of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) and intercontinental ballistic missile ...