While the camp’s Cold War importance was fleeting — the US military abandoned Camp Century in the late 1960s after less than a decade in operation — the cutting-edge scientific work ...

As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for nuclear missiles — underneath the ice in Greenland. Dubbed "Project Iceworm," the ...

Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. NASA scientists have rediscovered a long-lost "city" ...

Camp Century was home to one of the first portable nuclear reactors, the PM-2A, designed to be assembled from components small enough to be airlifted by a C-130 cargo plane.

Turns out Greene stumbled upon Camp Century — a once-secret military base from the Cold War era. The startling discovery happened as he flew over northern Greenland in April, some 150 miles east ...

Camp Century was built by the U.S. military in 1959 during the Cold War. Its official purpose was to test construction techniques in the harsh Arctic conditions and conduct scientific research ...

The team found that the waste at Camp Century covers about 136 acres, about the size of 100 football fields, and contains an estimated 53,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 63,000 gallons of wastewater.

According to NASA, the scientists discovered Camp Century, also known as the "city under the ice," a Cold War relic. Camp Century was a military base that was built by the United States Army Corps ...

A radar team conducting a survey over Greenland captured new images of an abandoned Cold War-era city hidden beneath the ice. Camp Century was originally a military base built beneath the surface ...

The CIRES-led study used ground-penetrating radar to estimate the amount of waste under the ice. The team found that the waste at Camp Century covers about 136 acres, about the size of 100 ...