Case in point: Camp Century, the US Army’s subterranean nuclear apocalypse bunker built inside Greenland’s near-surface ice sheet. Construction on the sprawling underground facility began in ...

CBS News' Walter Cronkite visited Camp Century for a tour of the still-under-construction facility for a program that aired in 1961. The camp's commander, Captain Tom Evans, explained to him that ...

In order to transport thousands of tons of construction materials and equipment to Camp Century, Army engineers had to load everything onto large tracked vehicles called “heavy swings.” ...

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’. Construction began in 1959 – and it ...

where construction of Camp Century was managed. "Without detailed knowledge of ice thickness, it is impossible to know how ...

In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found Camp Century, a Cold War U.S ... The base's official purpose was to test construction techniques and conduct scientific research ...

Camp Century was presented to the public as an ... Tunneling through snow and ice Construction began in 1959 on the $8 million remote facility, located about 150 miles away from Thule Air Base ...

Officially, Camp Century was created to test sub-ice construction techniques, but the real plan was top secret - creating a hidden launch site in case of conflict with the Soviets. It was ...

Camp Century and Project Iceworm caused significant environmental damage, but a potential benefit of the secret installation has recently emerged. Back in the 1960s when the military construction ...

In fact, Camp Century, as Weiss’ icy home was known ... He recalls unsuccessful attempts at the railroad’s construction taking place in a horseshoe-shaped tunnel excavated under the ice ...

Case in point: Camp Century, the US Army’s subterranean nuclear apocalypse bunker built inside Greenland’s near-surface ice sheet. Construction on the sprawling underground facility began in 1959 ...