Hidden beneath Greenland’s ice and powered by a nuclear reactor, Camp Century made for an interesting us military base. But ...

During the Cold War, the US secretly built Camp Century under Greenland’s ice, planning to hide 600 nuclear missiles.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of a portable nuclear power plant arrives at Camp Century in 1960. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In a tunnel 40 feet beneath ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: NASA scientists have found the remains of a U.S. military base buried 100 feet below the surface of the ice in Greenland. Camp Century, as it was ...

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, geologist Paul Bierman explains the history of what happened to Camp Century, a secret Arctic base.

A failed US plan to hide missiles under the ice now provides vital clues for understanding Greenland’s future and climate ...

In a tunnel 40 feet beneath the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, a Geiger counter screamed. It was 1964, the height of the Cold War. U.S. soldiers in the tunnel, 800 miles from the North Pole, were ...

While flying over Greenland and using advanced radar technology to map the continent's ice, NASA scientists discovered something incredible, an abandoned Cold-War-era U.S. military base 100 feet under ...