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.

Camp Century: Look back at Cold war history frozen in time The U.S. Army Engineers who are installing a portable nuclear power plant shown as they move the vaper condenser, a component of plant ...

Deep within the ice sheet of Greenland lies a US military secret that hasn't been seen since the 1960s, but a NASA flyover ...

best exemplified by the eerie case of Camp Century. Located in the far northwest of the vast frozen island, Century served as ...

And almost on a whim they went farther too, collecting 11 and a half feet of ancient, frozen soil. They only stopped when a drill bearing burned out. That soil would form one of Camp Century’s ...

But the samples of ice and frozen sediment that scientists extracted from deep underneath Camp Century are still providing ... “I think we have fossil plants in here.” Advertising I took ...

To serve as camp doctor ... melting the frozen sediment back in his Vermont lab in 2019 as his career’s only “eureka moment.” His analysis revealed fossilized plant remains in the sediment ...

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.