Project Iceworm (Kalaallinik una ilisimaneqarpaa?) Credit: Frank J. Leskovitz In the 1960s, the U.S. Army embarked on a secret mission to build a series of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The objective was to house medium-range missiles close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union. The program was codenamed Project Iceworm, but to test its feasibility, the Army launched a cover research project called "Camp Century" in 1960. Under this guise, engineers built a network of underground buildings and tunnels, including living quarters, a kitchen, a recreation hall, infirmary, laboratories, supply rooms, a communications center and a nuclear power plant. The base, which was kept secret from the Danish government, operated for seven years. The program was canceled in 1966 after shifting ice created unstable conditions. Today, the crushed remains of Project Iceworm are buried beneath Arctic snow. ( livescience/40172-declassified-military-cia-secrets.html ) Walter Marx reacts · Top Commenter Someone seems to have not told them that glaciers move. Ross Beausejour reacts · Works at Armies how convient that at the same time in greenland there was a bomber with 4 nukes involved in a crash there . HMMMM was the cleanup a cover for this operation ???? I wish some of these stories would be researched more thoroughly and give other pertinent facts that are somewhat connected . Those poor Danes. As ever never just believe the cover story do some research yourself. Some Greenlandic friends that can tell me? Kalaallinik una ilisimaneqarpaa?
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