What’s Still Buried Beneath Greenland’s Ice Could Be a Disaster

During the height of the Cold War, the United States faced a strategic problem no missile system or radar network could fully solve. How do you hide nuclear weapons in plain sight — close enough to strike the Soviet Union, yet impossible to detect?

The answer was the Arctic.

In 1959, the U.S. Army built Camp Century, a secret underground base carved deep into Greenland’s ice sheet. Officially, it was a research station. In reality, it was a test site for Project Iceworm — a classified plan to deploy hundreds of nuclear missiles beneath the ice.

The plan failed. The ice shifted. The tunnels collapsed. And the base was abandoned.

But what the public was never told is that radioactive waste, diesel fuel, chemical contaminants, and sewage were left behind, sealed under layers of ice that were assumed would never melt.

Today, that assumption is no longer true.

This video breaks down how the U.S. built a nuclear-powered base under Greenland, why it was abandoned, what was left behind, and how a Cold War secret could become a modern environmental crisis if the ice continues to disappear.

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