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OxQQme

(2,550 posts) Fri Aug 30, 2019, 10:16 AM Aug 2019

Interesting factoid about our interest in Greenland

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Interesting factoid about our interest in Greenland (Original Post) OxQQme Aug 2019 OP

Building Thule AFB OxQQme Aug 2019 #1

Fascinating video. Thanks! (Wish I had a snowblower like that one [Northern VT]). erronis Aug 2019 #2

The rest of the story William Seger Aug 2019 #3

OxQQme

(2,550 posts)

1. Building Thule AFB

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Fri Aug 30, 2019, 11:22 AM

Aug 2019

erronis

(15,241 posts)

2. Fascinating video. Thanks! (Wish I had a snowblower like that one [Northern VT]).

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Fri Aug 30, 2019, 04:12 PM

Aug 2019

Love the "advanced electronics", and the slide-rule.

William Seger

(10,778 posts)

3. The rest of the story

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Fri Aug 30, 2019, 04:46 PM

Aug 2019

Project Iceworm

Project Iceworm was a top secret United States Army program of the Cold War, which aimed to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The ultimate objective of placing medium-range missiles under the ice — close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union — was kept secret from the Government of Denmark. To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century, was launched in 1960.[1] Unstable ice conditions within the ice sheet caused the project to be canceled in 1966.

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