Camp Century

History, Military 3 Minutes

All the latest chatter about acquiring Greenland just became much more relevant to me.  I found this article on the allthatsinteresting.com website detailing a hidden American base UNDER the ice in Greenland.

From: allthatsinteresting.com:

Constructed by the United States during the Cold War, Camp Century was built so the Soviets never had any hope of finding it.

Buried underneath the frozen wonderland of Greenland’s vast ice sheet is a remnant of the Cold War. It’s not a plane wreck site or some classified piece of fantastic military hardware, but something far more interesting: Camp Century.

Camp Century, the result of Project Iceworm, was a small, full-fledged city less than 800 miles from the North Pole. Even more impressive, it was powered by a mobile nuclear reactor. The outpost started as a scientific operation around 150 miles inland from Thule Air Base. Eventually, the U.S. military thought it would be an ideal place to expand its operation into something much more sinister than a mere science outpost.

The idea behind a frozen base in a barren wasteland was that no one would think to bomb or invade the area. Even if Soviet planes knew the general location (as shown in this documentary film on the base), the blinding snow conditions would make the installation impossible to see, and because it’s buried beneath the ice, radar from planes would be useless as a detection method.

Think of Camp Century as the ice planet of Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back and you get the idea. No one in the Empire believed a base would exist there, which made it the perfect place to hide rebels.

A Construction Nightmare

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had to import everything to construct the base in 1959. Massive machines from Switzerland tunneled out the ice and snow at 1,200 cubic yards per hour. The longest tunnel, called Main Street, measured 1,100 feet long, 26 feet wide and 28 feet tall. These tunnels were covered with corrugated steel sheets for a solid structure, and then the sheets were buried in the snow.

Once the tunnels were hollowed out, special infrastructure had to be constructed. Wooden buildings provided places for men to sleep, eat and work. Special air tunnels, dug up to 40 feet deep into the floor, surrounded each building to keep cold air circulating into Camp Century. Without them, the snow would melt and destroy everything.

Even with the cold air tunnels, melting was a ubiquitous worry. Men had to constantly monitor tunnels for deformations and changes. People had to trim tunnel walls and roofs all of the time to combat melting.

The existence of the base wasn’t a secret – Walter Cronkite profiled it in 1961 when he visited – but the military chose to mask the true purpose of Camp Century.

The U.S. military originally wanted to store hundreds of ICBMs underneath Greenland’s ice sheet. While the engineers stationed there conducted climate research (the first core sample ever taken to study climate change came from Camp Century), Project Iceworm sought to weaponize the base.

The blueprint was to make this a storage facility for nuclear missiles. The military planned to dig 2,500 miles worth of tunnels and store up to 600 ICBMs that could hit the Soviet Union. Because the base was so remote and the Soviets wouldn’t think to launch nukes into Greenland, the belief was that the base could survive, launch its own missiles, and strike back even if the mainland United States suffered horrendous losses.

Abandonment Of Camp Century

Eventually, military commanders abandoned the idea of storing launch-ready nukes underneath a frozen glacier. The engineering feats were too hard and not cost-effective. The military abandoned the base in 1967, just eight years after commanders first mapped out Camp Century.

The vacant facility still poses a threat even though it was decommissioned more than 50 years ago. The army thought snow and ice would continue to accumulate and keep the base buried forever. Then climate change happened.

Experts estimate that 53,000 gallons of diesel fuel, several carcinogenic compounds, and small amounts of nuclear waste may seep into the surrounding environment by 2090. That’s after the 115 feet of snow covering the base melts away due to a five-degree rise in global temperatures.

The lesson here is that even secrets that you think lay hidden beneath a permanent layer of ice and snow may come back to bite you eventually.

Luckily, there aren’t 600 nukes just waiting to be found by rogue elements.

SOURCE: ALLTHATSINTERESTING.COM

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37 thoughts on “Camp Century”

    1. We’ve got similar predictions in Metro Detroit. Smelled smoke last night with open windows & Hubby said it’s more Canadian (deliberately set?) wildfires. He reported a spectacular sunrise with an orange glowing orb due to smoke obscuring the usual clear-ish skies.

      I didn’t notice any Northern Lights last night, though heard they’re possible to see here again!

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    1. it was interesting to me because none of this is secret, but no one mentioned it during the whole debate about Greenland becoming part of the US. I wonder at the strategic location and how that figures into POTUS’s vision for us in the future, (put your tin foil hat on for this part…lol) and did we really retrieve those ICBMS?

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  4. thanks to Valerie for bringing this update on Filly from Marica’s to wolf’s…
    Seen at Marica’s, sorry if this repeats someone else’s share…I’m behind in reading again

    Marica
    June 1, 2025 at 9:17 pm

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  6. the hubris of this turd…there’s no WE…there’s YOU and the ASSHOLES WHO WANT WAR.

    nitraM

    June 2, 2025 9:52 am

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    JUNE 02 2025

    Zelensky 

    Europe, together with America, has better weapons than Russia.

    We also have stronger tactical solutions – our operation “Spiderweb” yesterday proved that.

    Russia must feel what its losses mean. That is what will push it toward diplomacy. 

    And when Russia takes losses in this war, it’s obvious to everyone that Ukraine is the one holding the line – not just for itself, but for all of Europe.

    Ask your intelligence – what is Russia planning this summer in Belarus? If they’re bold enough to prepare attacks from there, then we need more strength – together.

    And right now, that means strengthening Ukraine – so we can stop this war and prevent it from spreading.

    That’s why weapons production matters.

    At today’s summit in Vilnius with the Bucharest Nine and the Nordic Countries, I thanked our partners for their support, and we are coordinating our steps together.

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  12. what a pompous ASS! he thinks he has the big dog standing at his side. he has war mongers but not the BIG DOG. FAFO

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