A NASA team found signs of the remnants of Camp Century, which shows the extent of Washington’s longtime involvement in the ...

Camp Century was a secret U.S. military base built inside the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1959 at the height of the Cold War. In official terms, the project was for Arctic research and the ...

NASA scientists rediscovered an abandoned U.S. nuclear base that lies entombed beneath at least 100 feet of ice.

NASA scientists flying over Greenland have rediscovered an old Cold War relic: a secret U.S. nuclear-missile site buried beneath the ice for decades.

Chad Greene, chief scientist for the space agency, was flying a plane over an enormous glacier in April 2024 when his radar unexpectedly detected Camp Century, a Cold War-era military base that ...

Built in 1959 Camp Century had been built with the original purpose of storing nuclear missiles that could be fired should the US be wiped out by the Soviet Union. Dubbed the 'city under the ice ...

In 1959, the Army Corps of Engineers set up Camp Century - a network of tunnels underneath Greenland's frozen surface. By 1962, the site was a full-time hub for Project Iceworm, a plan to ...