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Project Iceworm was a top secret United States Army program of the Cold War, which aimed to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The end goal was to install a vast network of nuclear missile launch sites that could survive a first strike .
In the 1960s, the U.S. built a nuclear-powered city inside underground tunnels carved into Greenland's ice sheets and then abandoned it. Here's the full story.
Once the location was settled, hundreds of military engineers and technicians trekked 150 miles from the existing Thule Air Base along Greenland’s northwest coast to the Camp Century site.
The flights were conducted out of Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Force Base. The Space Force base is now the U.S. military's northernmost installation and supports missile warning ...
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 1951 and was completed in 1953.
It sounds like something out of a James Bond movie: a secret military operation hidden beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. But that's exactly what transpired at Camp Century during the Cold War. In 1959, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the subterranean city under the guise of conducting polar research—and scientists there did drill the ...
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. [2][3]
Flying above northern Greenland in a Gulfstream III in April of this year, Greene and his crew were monitoring radar information collected from the ice sheet below when, about 150 miles east of Pituffik Space Base—formerly Thule Air Base and still the northernmost installation operated by the U.S. Armed Forces—they spotted something unexpected.
They found it in the frozen wilds of Greenland, which became the setting for Project Iceworm, a top-secret plan to convert part of the Arctic into a launchpad for nuclear missiles — and at...
Thule Air Base, the Department of Defense’s northernmost installation, has been renamed to Pituffik Space Base in order recognize Greenlandic cultural heritage and better reflect its role in the U.S. Space Force.The ceremony took place in the fitness center where distinguished guests and Greenlandic community members attended the historic event.