In 1959, the US Army started drilling into a glacier in Greenland. According to the Atomic Heritage Foundation's Nuclear Museum, what emerged from that dig was Camp Century, an underground base powered by a portable nuclear reactor, publicly sold as a research station. That was not all. It was a cover for a much larger plan, codenamed Project Iceworm.
If you grew up thinking Cold War missiles were mostly hidden in Kansas wheat fields, this story may surprise you.
