Camp Century was sold as a place where engineers could learn to live comfortably within an ice sheet- funny thing to say until one sees between the lines the reason why. In 1959, the U.S. Army Corps ...

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 ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told Greenlanders or Denmark about the secret project.

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

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 ...

The US has had a military presence in Greenland since World War II. But an abandoned underground military site poses a major environmental threat as the planet warms. Researchers found thousands of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Men of the U.S. Army Polar Research and Development Center set up communications at the temporary camp used during the ...