[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, GLOBAL: "NASA Found a Secret Military Base Buried 100 Feet Deep in Greenland’s Ice Shelf"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

NASA Found a Secret Military Base Buried 100 Feet Deep in Greenland’s Ice Shelf
The base is abandoned, but the U.S. Army left some waste behind.

BY CONNOR LAGORE
Popular Mechanics
November 27, 2024

	• NASA scientists have found the remains of a U.S. military base buried 100 feet below the surface of the ice in Greenland.
	• Camp Century, as it was called, was a Cold War-era satellite for the U.S. Army used as a front for a planned arsenal of nuclear missiles.
	• While the plan never came to fruition and the base was shortly abandoned, there are still thousands of gallons of nuclear waste buried beneath the ice.

Over the years, we’ve dug up a lot of stuff buried underneath layers upon layers of ice. Ancient tools, animal corpses, World War II planes, volcanos—you name it, ice has buried it, and we’ve found it. 

During an April flight over the Greenland Ice Sheet, NASA scientist Chad Greene added a pretty surprising entrant to that list: a secret military base. After taking radar images of the ice, Greene was surprised to see what was shortly thereafter confirmed to be Camp Century—a 65-year-old Cold War United States military base buried 100 feet deep in the massive ice sheet.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63024551/greenland-ice-secret-base/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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