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Sovereignty on Ice: The Secret Nuclear Defiance of Project Iceworm
Published 6 months, 1 week ago
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In 1960, the U.S. Army began carving a nuclear-powered "city under the ice" in Greenland, publicly framing it as a triumph of scientific cooperation with Denmark. Behind closed doors, however, it was the site of Project Iceworm—a clandestine plan to station 600 nuclear missiles on Danish soil without the full consent or knowledge of the Danish government