Named Camp Century because it was initially intended to be located 100 miles from the Greenland ice cap, the site was plagued by harsh winter conditions, including winds as high as 125 miles per ...

Camp Century was a secret U.S. military base built inside the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1959 at the height of the Cold War. In official terms, the project was for Arctic research and the ...

Greenland's formidable ice was also the biggest problem for a legendary Cold War-era top secret project — a tunnel city under the ice designed to store hundreds of nuclear missiles within firing ...

My eyes played tricks on me in the dark. It was 2 a.m. on the edge of a bay in Greenland, and our tented camp appeared like a black-and-white photograph in the light of my headlamp. I watched as ...