Project Iceworm

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>In the 1960s, the United States Army created a top secret program code named "Project Iceworm."

>The purpose of this project was to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet.

>Project Iceworm was kept secret for decades until 1995 when the Danish Foreign Policy Institute (DUPI) opened an investigation into the history of the use and storage of nuclear weapons in Greenland. Danish parliament ordered the investigation after the declassification of information about a B-52 crash in 1968 at Thule Air Base, located over 1,200 km north of the Arctic Circle.

>A highly publicized program named "Camp Century" was created as cover for Iceworm. Its main site, which was built at an elevation of 2,000 meters in northwestern Greenland, was started by the United States military to "test the feasibility of construction techniques in frigid conditions." The real top secret operation (Iceworm) was to be a network of underground tunnels, totaling 4,000 km, which would be used to deploy up to 600 nuclear missiles in case of war.

>According to a declassified 1960 U.S. Army report titled "Strategic Value of the Greenland Icecap," if fully implemented, Iceworm would cover an astounding area of 130,000 square kilometers (roughly three times the size of Denmark). Launch complex floors would be located 8.5 meters below the surface, with the actual missiles themselves positioned further down.

>The Army ultimately planned to deploy a two-stage version of the U.S. Air Force's Minuteman Missile. The proposed name for this new missile was to be "Iceman."

https://www.basicgestalt.com/single-post/2017/08/23/Revisiting-The-Top-Secret-Government-Program-Project-Iceworm