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Camp Century: The Cold War City Under the Greenland Ice

In 1959 the US Army began cutting tunnels into the Greenland ice sheet and built a nuclear-powered camp for up to 200 people. Publicly it was an Arctic research station. Secretly it was a test for a plan to hide hundreds of missiles under the ice. The moving ice defeated it, and the camp was abandoned, leaving waste buried in the snow.