Beneath the endless white expanse of Greenland’s ice sheet, the U.S. Army once built a hidden city, powered by a portable nuclear reactor, with a clandestine mission that could have triggered a global catastrophe. Why would anyone build a base under a moving glacier, and what forced its terrifying, radioactive abandonment?

This is the story of Camp Century, publicly a "polar research station," but secretly "Project Iceworm"—a plan to hide hundreds of nuclear missiles under the ice, within striking distance of the Soviet Union. We explore the incredible engineering feats of tunneling into the ice, the daily life of soldiers in a sunless world, and the fatal geological flaw that doomed the project. The episode culminates with the present-day climate crisis, which is now melting the ice and threatening to release the base's buried toxic and radioactive waste.

You will confront the chilling legacy of Cold War brinkmanship, where geopolitical strategy collided with planetary forces in a way we are only beginning to understand. It’s a stark lesson in the permanence—or impermanence—of our most dangerous secrets.

The ice never forgets.

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Hosted by Ibnul Jaif Farabi. Produced by Light Knot Studios (lightknotstudios.com).