But hardly anyone knew the truth: Camp Century was also developing Project Iceworm, a network of complex tunnels and railway tracks which could house and transport some 600 nuclear missiles.
The camp was also home to two miles of tunnels and various amenities, like a theater and library for crew members] Camp Century was built in 1959 and operational for seven years.
Inside the secret US military base hidden 100 feet beneath Greenland’s surface A secretive base underneath Greenland was home to a nuclear missile project in the 1960s.
Last April, NASA scientist Chad Greene and his crew were flying over Greenland when their radar unexpectedly picked up Century’s vast network of tunnels underneath the ice.
“We had everything you could imagine - lights, and heat, and all that kind of stuff,” John Fresh, a soldier who visited Camp Century, told NPR.
