As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...

Sixty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, U.S. military scientists achieved a major feat. They extracted a mile-long slender cylinder of ancient ice from the heart of the Greenland ice sheet ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of tunnels dubbed 'Camp Century'.

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...

NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice.". In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found ...

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. Army began work on another top-secret base deep on the Greenland Ice Cap. Camp Century was defined as a “scientific research station.” ...

Per a 1951 treaty with Denmark, the U.S. is able to build military installations in Greenland. At its peak during the Cold War, Washington had 17 military base across the island with about 10,000 ...

— -- Ice cores, glaciers and the cruel polar winds — the Cold War for Greenland featured the fiercest of foes. And scientists fought on the front lines. They battled polar whiteouts that ...

During the Cold War, US Army scientists planned to hide hundreds of nuclear warheads underneath the Greenland ice sheet in a covert mission known as "Project Iceworm." It was 1960 and tensions ...

While Greenland remains part of Denmark, it has far more autonomy today than it did during the height of the Cold War. In 1979, Greenland’s majority Inuit population voted in favor of home rule ...

Cold War history The new study details the history of Camp Century, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers military base that was built in the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1959.