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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social

1/15/2026, 5:48:35 AM

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Project Iceworm

The Army also imagined hundreds of miles of rail lines buried inside Greenland’s ice sheet. On Project Iceworm’s tracks, atomic-powered trains would move nuclear-tipped missiles in snow tunnels between hidden launch stations – a shell game covering an area about the size of Alabama.

In the end, Project Iceworm never got beyond a 1,300-foot (400-meter) tunnel the Army excavated at Camp Century.

#Greenland
#US
#ProjectIceworm

A U.S. Army truck with railroad wheels sits on a 1,300-foot-long track beneath the snow at Camp Century, Greenland. This is the closest the military got to realizing Project Iceworm. Robert W. Gerdel Papers, The Ohio State University

The soft snow and ice, constantly moving, buckled that track as the tunnel walls closed in. In the early 1960s, first the White House, and then NATO, rejected Project Iceworm.

earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social

1/15/2026, 5:55:58 AM

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Sign-posting

A political cartoon by Herbert L. Block, published in April 1941, shortly after a treaty authorized the U.S. to build military bases in Greenland. A Herblock Cartoon, © The Herb Block Foundation

#cartoons
#Greenland
#US

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