What’s old is new again.
NASA scientists discovered an underground “city” buried 100 feet beneath the ice of Greenland.
Researchers were shocked when their advanced radar technology picked up signs of human construction deep beneath the ice of the island territory’s tundra, according to the space agency.
Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War-era military installation, was rediscovered 100 feet beneath the ice by a NASA Gulfstream III back in April, according to a news release.
“We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century,” said Alex Gardner, a cryospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who helped lead the project. “We didn’t know what it was at first.”
The US Army Corps of Engineers built the massive structure at the behest of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who sought to preserve the use of ground-deployed nuclear missiles as a key part of the nation’s nuclear deterrent policy, according to the Washington Post.
Camp Century was initially drawn up to be three times the size of Denmark (which owns Greenland), sitting at 52,000 square miles (about the size of Louisiana) and outfitted with 2,000 firing positions from which 600 “Iceman missiles” would be launched in the case of nuclear war with the Soviets --- a veritable revolver carved out of ice.
The missiles would be launched through “cut-and-cover” tunnels, carved 28 feet beneath the surface, according to an academic article titled “The Iceman that Never Came.”
Those 600 missiles would have been enough to destroy 80% of US targets in the Soviet Union and Eastern European, the Washington Post reported.
These sweeping military plans were kept secret from the Kingdom of Denmark, which owns Greenland. The US told Danish officials that the project was purely for scientific research purposes. The real motivations behind “Project Iceworm” were revealed in 1997, the Washington Post reports.
Not A Space Agency is now digging up ice in Greenland? Yeah, that makes sense.
Detected by airborne ice-penetrating radar.
Or - is this just a cover story because the plane detected radiation? Did we leave missiles there and they finally broke and radiation leaked? Did we leave a small ship or sub nuclear reactor there and it is finally leaking - or worse?
Here's another story about it from CBAss:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-camp-century-city-under-the-ice-greenland-us-military-radar-images/
This quote seems to indicate that we buried radioactive waste under the ice back then. I don't think this was an accident. I bet enough radiation is leaking that it will be able to be detected by "others" soon...
The plane had ice-penetrating radar, not a Geiger counter. There were never any missiles. The power reactor was deactivated, decommissioned, disassembled, and returned to the United States. The only "radioactive waste" likely to have been buried would have been low-level waste, such as clothing, tools, and miscellaneous materials employed in working with the reactor. No reason to drag all that waste back to the U.S., when it was expected it would all be entombed for a century or so.
A good summary of Camp Century can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century# An account of the PM-2A reactor can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program#List_of_plants. This was one of several such small reactors developed for remote base operations (including one at McMurdo Station in Antarctica).
I know what the official story says. I don't buy it. Here's why:
https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/category/aircraft/Gulfstream_III_-_LaRC
So the Gulfstream3 planes can detect "other fx".
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-us-news-air-force-deploying-nuke-sniffer-aircraft-1988020
We do have nuclear "sniffer" planes. No reason why the GS3 can't do it too. If you want more:
Langley. As in CIA Langley. BTW - Just because the military says they did something doesn't mean they did it. It just means you won't know or hear anything about it anymore.
Edited - forgot to add this. Even spent nuclear fuel rods in dry cask storage (read: big thick containers in big thick concrete buried underground, and more concrete laid on top), can be seen on simple Thermal Security Cameras. You can clearly see which concrete pads have nuclear material underneath and which ones don't because the color is bright (or dark depending on the settings) on the cameras. I have seen this firsthand.