10 Heinous Projects That Remained Hidden In Classified Documents

The Iceworm Project was the code name of a high-secret US army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet.

The ultimate goal of placing medium-range missiles under the ice — close enough to attack targets within the Soviet Union — was kept secret by the Danish government.

Studying the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized “hedge” project, known as Camp Century, was launched in 1960.

However, unstable ice conditions within the ice sheet caused the project to be canceled in 1966.

The details of the missile base project were secret for decades, first coming to light in January 1995 and resulting in a political scandal, when the Danish Foreign Policy Institute (DUPI) was asked by the Folketing (Danish Parliament) to investigate the history of nuclear weapons in Greenland during the Cold War.