Inside the US Army's failed nuclear ice lair in Cold War Greenland
While the U.S. didn’t get to act out its Bond villain lair fantasies, it did further scientific understandings of the world around us.
Source: militarytimes.com
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While the U.S. didn’t get to act out its Bond villain lair fantasies, it did further scientific understandings of the world around us.
In 1959 the U.S. attempted to build a city under the ice sheets of Greenland. It didn't go well.
Long before Greenland’s shifting ice threatened sea level rise, it doomed one of the military’s most audacious Cold War projects.