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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 ...
To test the feasibility of construction techniques a project site called Camp Century was started by the United States military in 1959, located at an elevation of 6,600 feet (2,000 m) in Northwestern Greenland, 150 miles (240 km) from the American Thule Air Base. [4] [5] The radar and air base at Thule had been active since 1951.
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.
A secret base underneath Greenland was home to a nuclear missile project in the 1960s. ... (U.S. Army Photo courtesy of Office of History, HQ, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) ...
It also served as a top-secret site for testing the feasibility of deploying nuclear missiles from the Arctic during the Cold War. The base housed 85-200 soldiers and was powered by a nuclear reactor.
Thule Site J (J-Site) is a United States Space Force (USSF) radar station in Greenland near Pituffik Space Base for missile warning and spacecraft tracking.The northernmost station of the Solid State Phased Array Radar System, the military installation was built as the 1st site of the RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System and had 5 of 12 BMEWS radars.
Deep within the Arctic Circle in Greenland sits one of the US's most isolated, and potentially critical, air bases. At more than 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Thule Air Base is located at ...
English: Gen. "Jay" Raymond, Air Force Space Command commander, visited Thule Air Base, Greenland Dec. 10-12, 2017 with AFSPC command chief, Chief Master Sgt. Brendan Criswell, Col. Jennifer Grant, 50th Space Wing commander, and Col. Devin Pepper, 21st Operations Group. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dennis Hoffman)