The secret city under the ice: Camp Century finally discovered!

The secret city under the ice: Camp Century finally discovered!

The discovery under the Greenland ice causes excitement! NASA scientists found a secret military base hidden more than 30 meters below the ice surface during a test flight in April 2024. Using a new type of radar, scientist Chad Greene and his team stumbled upon the long-forgotten "city under the ice" known as Camp Century, built by the U.S. Army during the Cold War. Originally planned as part of the secret “Project Iceworm”, the facility was intended to serve as a location for nuclear missiles that would be directed against the Soviet Union in an emergency. How today.at reported, the military planned to withdraw from Camp Century in 1967 due to high costs, but many dangerous residues, including radioactive waste, remained.

A relic of the past

The base, created by the US Army, was founded in 1959 with the aim of testing a secret military operation. Construction in extreme conditions - temperatures as low as -70°F and massive snowdrifts - resulted in an impressive complex of 26 tunnels that could accommodate 200 soldiers. This place was not only a military project, but also a research site where important scientific findings were gained from ice samples, such as ahf.nuclearmuseum.org highlights.

The efforts at Camp Century at that time are in the context of the major military strategies during the Cold War. Project “Iceworm” was intended to create an entire network of tunnels in which 600 atomic missiles would be stored, an idea that was abandoned in 1963 because the dangers and technical hurdles of Greenland's infrastructure were far too great. Secrecy was of the utmost importance - after the base was closed in 1966, it sank into the ice for decades.