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TIL about "Project Iceworm", a top-secret 1958 $2.7 billion U.S. plan to convert part of the Arctic into a launchpad for nuclear missiles, including a nuclear reactor. Due to shifting Greenland ice sheets, the plan was scrapped in 1967, & the massive underground structure thereafter collapsed

https://www.historynet.com/project-iceworm-army-attempted-to-build-nuclear-lair-g…

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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1hmdoj7/til_about_project_iceworm_a_topsecret_1958_27/

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Marakesh 𓅦 1y ago

I wonder if recent news reports about this is what prompted Trump to pop off that the U.S.A. should claim Greenland for national security purposes?

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