As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...

Award-winning director R.J. Cutler plans to direct a documentary on Camp Century, a secret U.S. military installation built in Greenland.

Project Iceworm only became public knowledge in 1997, ... Greenland, which is now an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark, remains strategically appealing to the United States.

Project Iceworm sought to use Northern Greenland as a launch site due to its proximity to the Soviet Union and because of the remoteness of the location, according to the 2007 article "The Iceman ...

As for Project Iceworm, few were in the know — until years later. It was only in 1968, when a U.S. jet armed with nuclear bombs crashed, that an investigation into American activity in Greenland ...

NASA scientists discovered an underground “city” buried 100 feet beneath the ice of Greenland. ... “Project Iceworm” and Camp Century were both abandoned in 1967.

In the 1960s, a secret American military base underneath Greenland was home to a nuclear missile project and Project Iceworm — a network of complex tunnels and railways tracks that could house ...

This thermal drill at Camp Century in Greenland was used to drill through the ice cap in 1966. ... the U.S. army didn’t immediately share Project Iceworm’s true nature with the Danish government.

Project Iceworm Camp Century operated continuously between 1960 and 1964, and then during summers only until its closure in 1967. The station’s public mission was scientific research.