Iceworm never went anywhere, and the US closed Camp Century in 1966, leaving the tunnels to collapse. But before everyone fled, researchers did manage to dig up some actual scientific dirt ...

Now Ueda was moving fast. This was a bit of needed encouragement, because by the end of summer, Camp Century was beginning to collapse around him. Inside the trenches, heat from the buildings ...

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.” ...

In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found Camp Century, a Cold War U.S. military base while attempting to map the ice sheet. “We were looking for the bed of the ice and ou ...

Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. As ice began to crush the site, the US abandoned the ...

Camp Century was originally a military base built beneath the surface of Greenland in 1959 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. While it once sat close to the surface, since being abandoned in ...