A team of researchers stumbled upon the long-forgotten Camp Century, an ambitious military project from the 1950s built under the ice in Greenland and nicknamed the 'city under the ice.' The base was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1959 and abandoned in 1967, now buried 100 feet beneath the ice.
The team eventually realized they had stumbled upon far more than what they bargained for: the remnants of Camp Century, a long-forgottenThe abandoned Cold War -era military base was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1959 and was nicknamed the “city under the ice.”The base was built by cutting a network of tunnels within the near-surface layer of the ice sheet and was abandoned in 1967.
The researchers, who took the flights in April, had no idea they would discover the ambitious military project from the previous millennium during the mission.The structure was Camp Century, built in 1959 with a covert agenda to test deploying nuclear missiles from the Arctic during the Cold War“In the new data, individual structures in the secret city are visible in a way that they’ve never been seen before,” said Chad.
Built at the urging of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the base’s official purpose was to test construction techniques in the harsh Arctic conditions and conduct scientific research.However, there was a top-secret military agenda also behind its construction. The base served as a secret site for testing the feasibility of deploying nuclear missiles from the Arctic during the Cold War.
“When we looked at the climate simulations, they suggested that rather than perpetual snowfall, it seems that as early as 2090, the site could transition from net snowfall to net melt,”William Colgan, a climate and glacier scientist at York University in Toronto, Canada, and a research associate at CIRES who co-authored a study on the base released in August.
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