Greenland’s receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project | The Guardian
►https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/27/receding-icecap-top-secret-us-nuclear-project-greenland-camp-century-pr
A system of about 4,000 kilometres of icy underground tunnels and chambers extending over an area around three times the size of Denmark were to have housed 600 ballistic missiles in clusters six kilometres apart, trained on Moscow and its satellites.
Eventually the engineers realised Iceworm would not work. The constantly moving ice was too unstable and would have deformed and perhaps even collapsed the tunnels.
From 1964 Camp Century was used only intermittently, and three years later it was abandoned altogether, the departing soldiers taking the reaction chamber of the nuclear generator with them.
(...) With no established agreement on the question [of clean-up], the report says the “multinational, multi-generational” problem posed by #Camp_Century and its waste could become a source of tension between the US, Greenland and Denmark.
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