Project Iceworm: The US Army's Secret City Under the Greenland Ice

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Project Iceworm: The US Army's Secret City Under the Greenland Ice

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Beneath the endless white expanse of Greenland’s ice cap, the US Army built a city designed to survive a nuclear war and launch missiles at the Soviet Union. It was called Camp Century, publicly a "polar research station." But what was the true, clandestine purpose of this subterranean network, and why was it doomed from the start? This episode uncovers the incredible story of Project Iceworm, a top-secret Cold War initiative to hide hundreds of ballistic missiles under moving glacial ice. We’ll explore the engineering marvel of the "city under the ice," complete with a nuclear reactor, streets, and barracks, and the fatal geological miscalculation that American planners made. We delve into the political time bomb it created, left buried and abandoned when the ice itself began to crush the tunnels. Listeners will learn how a combination of hubris, groundbreaking science, and environmental reality collided in one of the Cold War’s most audacious and flawed projects. We examine the legacy it leaves today, as climate change threatens to unearth its toxic remains and spark an international dispute. The ice always keeps its secrets, but not forever. #ProjectIceworm #CampCentury #ColdWarSecrets #Greenland #ClimateChangeArcheology #AbandonedMilitary #SubglacialCity Hosted by Ibnul Jaif Farabi. Produced by Light Knot Studios (lightknotstudios.com).

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