The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed Camp Century some 125 miles inland from Greenland’s coast. The base, designed as a self-sustaining facility, was powered by a nuclear reactor and had ...

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

Camp Century, constructed in 1959 by the US Army ... At the heart of the facility was the PM-2A portable nuclear reactor, ...

Built in 1959 Camp Century had been built with the original purpose of storing nuclear missiles that could be fired should ...

In doing so, the military removed a portable nuclear reactor that had helped power ... hatch into a lateral trench of the permanent camp at Camp Century in Greenland. Credit: Pictorial Parade ...

Camp Century, as the outpost was called ... the base was powered by a nuclear reactor that had been dragged more than 130 miles across the ice sheet. Sleeping quarters, a gym, latrines, labs ...