NASA has rediscovered a city-sized military base hidden under the ice near the North Pole

Although other flights had previously been flown over the area with conventional radar that produced 2D images, in April UAVSARs were used. A synthetic aperture radar for unmanned aerial vehicles is fitted in the belly of the aircraft. basically it produces high dimensional map Thanks to a tool that looks at the bottom and sides.

“In the new data, lThe individual structures of the secret city appear as if they have never been seen before“Green said. These structures are apparently a line of tunnels built to house a series of facilities.

What is Camp Century?

Located more than 1000 kilometers away from the North Pole, this city is called the ‘city under the ice’. In 1951 the United States and Denmark signed the Greenland Defense Agreement. Its purpose was to negotiate agreements under which the armed forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization parties would PHe hated using Greenland facilities In defense of it and the rest of NATO territory. In essence, it allowed the US to build military bases in Greenland.

The Americans told the Danish government that what they wanted was to build an airport, and in the end, they established Thule Airport and this base city. NASA reported that it was the US Army Corps of Engineers that helped build the military base in 1959. For this they dug OrThree kilometer network of 26 steel tunnels inside the ice sheet close to the surface.

Let’s remember that this is an area where the temperature They can go down to 57 degrees below zero Winds that can reach up to 193 kilometers per hour. So it was an engineering feat that included bedrooms, a chapel, a barber’s shop, leisure areas and a hospital. served the yard Port up to 200 soldiers and civilian personnel Heated by nuclear energy. was the last thing to be installed PM-2, the world’s first portable nuclear reactor.

Additionally, an experiment considered how extreme conditions would affect an isolated community, in order to understand what would happen if they settled on the Moon. However, these features kept a big secret. As the Nuclear Museum points out, the Army even made a short film promoting Camp Century as a ‘remote research community’. But it was a cover, in fact “the feature was created primarily As a test of a military operation involving nuclear missiles,” he says.

ice worm project

it was about the war project ‘Project Iceworm’, in Spanish, Ice Worm Project, That included building a series of additional tunnels and hiding 2,100 nuclear missile silos. A railway construction would transport nuclear weapons from one point to another. “Planned to deploy army.” 600 missilesBuild another 60 launch control centers. In total, the project will require 11,000 troops to live in the city full-time,” the Atomic Museum details.

And they wanted to use modified versions of weapons that were already installed on American soil. it was about ‘Iceman’ missile, It was designed as a two-stage rocket Ability to achieve most objectives in the Soviet Union.

The program attracted the attention of important military circles because these Iceman missiles deployed in secret locations throughout Greenland would be very difficult to attack, and this made it possible to talk about the ability of the United States to conduct a second strike. Too ‘Iceworm’ was considered a way to share nuclear weapons under the auspices of NATO. However, the project had to be abandoned in 1963 due to the instability of the terrain.

This relic of the Cold War was abandoned in 1967. Ice had accumulated in the area, and “concrete structures are now attached to the facility”. YesThey are at least 30 meters below the surface“NASA Explains.”

Thule Gate

The ‘Iceworm’ project was kept under lock and key until 1997. Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI) Found out what Camp Century really was. Similarly, various declassified documents cast a shadow of doubt as to how much the Danish government actually knew about what the Americans were doing and whether they knew that nuclear weapons were stored at Thule Base. A situation that put the citizens of Greenland in real danger during those years. The matter was called Thule-Gate. However, the story does not end here, the second part begins A large amount of radioactive waste was buried under the snow.

his legacy

William Colgan, a researcher at York University in Canada, pointed to the presence of 200,000 liters of diesel fuel and considerable amounts of polychlorinated biphenyl, a highly toxic compound that can cause neurological and immunological changes in children or cancer. In animals. Similarly, they have 24,000,000 liters of waste water and over 47,000 gallons of nuclear waste from the plant they have.

The problem is that what was believed is buried forever current melt They can change. And NASA’s re-discovery using conventional radar has confirmed Camp Century’s depth estimates, “to determine when the ice sheet will melt and thin. Re-expose the camp and any biological, chemical and radioactive waste The rest were buried with it… For now, this new image remains a unique curiosity obtained by chance,” the agency says. Rediscovering a lost city.