Cold Logic "Project Iceworm: America's Nuclear City Beneath Greenland"
Cold Logic by Myia Hanson and Jeremy Hanson
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Cold Logic "Project Iceworm: America's Nuclear City Beneath Greenland"
There is a city beneath the Greenland ice. Not ancient. Not abandoned through neglect. Deliberately built, deliberately buried, and deliberately kept secret from the nation whose territory it occupied.Camp Century was constructed beginning in 1959 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers using cutting-edge trenching equipment to carve a network of tunnels into the Greenland ice sheet. Inside those tunnels, the Army built an operational military installation — sleeping quarters, a hospital, a mess hall, scientific laboratories, communications equipment, and a portable nuclear reactor generating power from beneath the Arctic ice. The public cover story was partially true: research was conducted there, and scientific papers were published. But the classified purpose was foundational ...
Read moreThere is a city beneath the Greenland ice. Not ancient. Not abandoned through neglect. Deliberately built, deliberately buried, and deliberately kept secret from the nation whose territory it occupied.Camp Century was constructed beginning in 1959 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers using cutting-edge trenching equipment to carve a network of tunnels into the Greenland ice sheet. Inside those tunnels, the Army built an operational military installation — sleeping quarters, a hospital, a mess hall, scientific laboratories, communications equipment, and a portable nuclear reactor generating power from beneath the Arctic ice. The public cover story was partially true: research was conducted there, and scientific papers were published. But the classified purpose was foundational ...