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 ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of tunnels dubbed ‘Camp Century’. Could the sprawling underground complex ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists at CIRES estimate that there are 136 acres of waste from Camp Century buried under the ice, including 53,000 gallons of diesel fuel, 63,000 gallons of wastewater and an unknown volume ...

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 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.

Scientists now have a clearer picture of Camp Century, ... It turns out the team had stumbled upon an abandoned Cold War-era military base built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1959.

TL;DR: NASA scientists, led by Chad Greene, used radar technology to capture unprecedented views of Camp Century, a secret US military base beneath Greenland's ice. The base, used during the Cold ...

NASA scientists found Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War military base, during a flight to map the Greenland Ice Sheet.