Giant vehicles were used to transport supplies to Camp Century, a U.S. military base in Greenland, shown in June 1959. (Pictorial Parade/Getty Images) As the threat of nuclear war loomed during the ...
At its height, the United States operated 50 military installations in Greenland—and once had fantastical plans for an elaborate nuclear missile network underneath its ice. Here’s What You Need to ...
As the threat of nuclear war loomed during the Cold War, the U.S. Army hatched a top-secret plan to conceal hundreds of missile launchers on rail lines hidden beneath the thick ice sheets of Greenland ...
In case of a Soviet attack, nukes dispersed in thousands of miles of cut-and-cover tunnels could be launched within 20 minutes. The name for the effort was worthy of a Hollywood action movie: Project ...