US builds big nuclear-powered city under the ice cap of Greenland
In 1959, the US started the construction of a large nuclear-powered city under the Ice Cap of Greenland. Watch the story of the impressive construction task in this video.
Camp Century was a controversial military base which as built during the Cold War under the ice cap of Greenland. Officially, the purpose of the base was scientific research, but the US Army secretly planned to house 600 nuclear missiles in an extension of the base.
Camp Century was shut down in 1966.
The video is produced by Army Pictorial Center and presented by United States of America War Office - United States Army. It is a part of the TV documentary series ‘Big Picture’.
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