Project Iceworm - Tales from the Cold War

The Cold War was a particularly tense period in human history, but it was also an era of remarkable creativity, scientific achievement and overall skulduggery. This first episode of Tales of the Cold War concerns a clandestine plan to place nuclear weapons underneath the Greenland ice sheet, all under the guise of scientific research. Buried and forgotten beneath the ice... for now.

Sources Consulted:
Amstrup, Niels. Grønland under den kolde krig. Dansk og Amerikansk sikkerhedspolitik 1945–1968. DUPI, 1997.
Anonymous. United States Informs Denmark of Nuclear Weapons in Greenland. The Nautilus Institute Digital Library, 1995. http://oldsite.nautilus.org/archives/...
Clark, Elmer F. Camp Century: Evolution of Concept and History of Design, Construction and Performance. United States Army Materiel Command Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 1965.
Colgan, W., H. Machguth, M. MacFerrin, J. D. Colgan, D. van As, and J. A. MacGregor. The abandoned ice sheet base at Camp Century, Greenland, in a warming climate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 8091–8096, 2016.
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Kristensen, Hans M. "U.S. Nuclear Weapons Deployments Disclosed", Nuclear Policy, October 20, 1999, https://nautilus.org/projects/nuclear...
Note From the Danish Ambassador (Ronne) to Secretary of State Rusk. Office of the Historian, United States of America, Department of State, 1968.
Petersen, Nikolaj. The Iceman That Never Came. Scandinavian Journal of History. 33. Scandinavian Journal of History, 2007.
Taagholt, Jørgen. Hansen, Jens Claus. Greenland: Security Perspectives. Translated by Daniel Lufkin. Fairbanks, Alaska: Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, 2001.
Weiss, Erik D. Cold War Under the Ice: The Army's Bid for a Long-Range Nuclear Role, 1959–1963. Journal of Cold War Studies, 2001.

Graphs:
Gardner, A. S., Fahnestock, M. A. & Scambos, T. A. Regional Glacier and Ice Sheet Surface Velocities.
Glaude, Q. Three regional climate models projection. Geophysical Research Letters, Université de Liège.
Poinar, K. GRACE-based mass balance. University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Höning, Dennis. et al. Multistability and Transient Response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions

Video Footage:
https://www.atomicarchive.com/fcan he
Bright Enlightenment. The U.S. Army's Top Secret Arctic City Under the Ice! "Camp Century" Restored Classified Film.    • The U.S. Army's Top Secret Arctic Cit...  
CBS. To Tell the Truth, Apr 10, 1961.
Crown Film Unit. Wing to Wing. 1951.
National Archives and Records Administration. Today in History, May 8, 1945: The War Ends in Europe. United News Company, 1945.
Future of Life Institute. How would a nuclear war between Russia and the US affect you personally? 2023
US Army. Camp Century, Greenland, Project Iceworm: "City Under the Ice" R&D Progress Report 6. (1963)

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