At the height of the Cold War the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded
deep in the Greenland ice cap Camp Century. Officially defined as a scientific research
station this facility had an undisclosed purpose: to aim up to 600 nuclear warheads buried in
the ice at the Soviet Union. In 1966 just six years after the camp was established the
United States gave up this provocative strategy and abandoned the base. Despite its brief life
Camp Century has been the cause of controversies from diplomatic relations between the United
States and its Arctic allies Denmark and Greenland to the risks of radioactive waste
abandoned at the site. This book is the first comprehensive account of the U.S. Army's city
under the ice.? Beginning with the Truman administration's vision of military superiority in
the Arctic and continuing through present-day concerns over the effects of climate change
Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine
installation.
