The Cold War was full of ambitious and often strange projects. Case in point: Camp Century, the US Army’s subterranean nuclear apocalypse bunker built inside Greenland’s near-surface ice sheet.
In 1960, Popular Science dove into the military's big subterranean plans for Camp Century, before they were abandoned in 1967. By Bill Gourgey Published May 17, 2022 7:00 AM EDT Get the Popular ...
The US has had a military presence in Greenland since World War II. But an abandoned underground military site poses a major environmental threat as the planet warms. Researchers found thousands of ...
In the early 1960s, the U.S. military constructed a research station beneath the Greenland ice sheet known as Camp Century. What initially appeared to be a polar research facility was, in fact, a ...
Have you ever heard of Camp Century? I didn't until I read this incredible story by Kathryn Hansen of NASA... In April 2024, NASA scientist Chad Greene flew aboard a Gulfstream III with a team of ...
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