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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==

Revision as of 18:30, 29 August 2016

Project Iceworm was the code name for a top-secret United States Army program during the Cold War 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 Danish government.

To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century, was launched in 1960.

However, unsteady ice conditions within the ice sheet caused the project to be canceled in 1966.

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