Project Iceworm: The US Army's Secret Nuclear City Under Greenland's Ice

Beneath the endless white expanse of Greenland, a forgotten city sleeps, slowly being crushed by ice. This is Camp Century, the public face of a top-secret Cold War project with an almost unimaginable goal: to hide hundreds of nuclear missiles under the polar ice cap, poised to strike the Soviet Union. What remains of this audacious, failed gamble, and what does its creeping re-emergence mean for international law today? We trace the incredible story of Project Iceworm, from its optimistic 1960s engineering—a "city under the ice" powered by a portable nuclear reactor—to its catastrophic abandonment as the shifting glacier began to collapse the tunnels. The episode investigates the long-term environmental threat: tons of radioactive coolant, diesel, and PCBs left behind, now on a collision course with the ocean as climate change accelerates the melt. You'll understand the Cold War's literal chilling scale and confront a looming geopolitical and ecological dilemma. The past, frozen for decades, is returning with urgent questions about responsibility and sovereignty. The Cold War left skeletons, but this one is radioactive and thawing fast. #ProjectIceworm #CampCentury #ColdWar #Greenland #NuclearHistory #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw Hosted by Ibnul Jaif Farabi. Produced by Light Knot Studios (lightknotstudios.com).