U.S. nuclear base hidden under Greenland's ice for decades

[rwmj]

https://archive.ph/bTZuA

[perihelions]

A couple other threads (on Project Iceworm and its tunnels),

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262547 ("NASA aircraft uncover Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet (space.com)"—42 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42249801 ("California scientists accidentally find nuclear fever dream in Arctic snow (sfgate.com)"—4 commments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28374013 ("The U.S. Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago (atlasobscura.com)" (2021)—152 comments)

[keepamovin]

There's very interesting bases in Greenland even today.

[urda]

Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/world/greenland-us-camp-century-nuclear-...

[alnwlsn]

Is this the one where they brought in a nuclear reactor?

edit: Yes, it was the PM-2A. A "portable" (but larger) version similar to the infamous SL-1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program#Lis...

[robotnikman]

I feel like commercial nuclear power would be better off using these much safer and smaller reactors than building massive powerplants.

[hyperific]

Here's a documentary on Camp Century https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.2569752

[perihelions]

This seems a color version of the same,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG5tWbTCocA ("Camp Century, The City Under The Ice - 1964 - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage")

(Found via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408226#30411047 (under "Newcomer's Welcome Package: Thule Air Base, Greenland [pdf] (militaryonesource.mil)"—60 comments (nb. the OP is a dead link)))

[aatd86]

reminds me of stargate sg1

[cluckindan]

The ideas in fiction come from somewhere…

[hersko]

This is amazing. Would love to see what it looks like down there now.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I have a friend that was stationed there. He's pretty old. I think it was in the 1960s.

[JKCalhoun]

Wild. The most Hoth-like thing I've seen.

[hammock]

Hoth was almost certainly inspired by Camp Century (first profiled in the Saturday Evening Post in 1960)

[wslh]

Really.

Offtopic: Andor series is the best Star Wars.

[yubblegum]

Is the nuclear reactor still there?

[reaperducer]

Way off topic, but it makes me wonder if Trump can't "get" Greenland the way he wants, if he'll just order Google et.al. to change their maps to show it as part of the United States anyway, and let cultural seepage do the work for him.

"This must be America. It says so on Google Maps!"

[Calwestjobs]

yes, nuclear submarine can not shoot nuclear warhead thru ice that is true.