Camp Century & Project Iceworm

Episode 04 · In production · all sources

The nuclear-powered US Army base built inside the Greenland ice sheet in 1959 — and the secret missile programme it was cover for. Full credits will appear here when the film is published.

Principal sources (provisional)

U.S. Army Research & Development — Progress Report No. 6: Camp Century (1964), DoD PIN 26064 Public domain
U.S. Army Signal Corps — The Big Picture: City Under the Ice (1961) Public domain
Elmer F. Clark, Camp Century: Evolution of Concept and History of Design, Construction, and Performance, CRREL Technical Report 174 (1965) Public domain
Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI) — report to the Folketing on nuclear weapons in Greenland (1997)
Colgan et al. (2016), The abandoned ice sheet base at Camp Century, Greenland, in a warming climate, Geophysical Research Letters
Christ et al. (2021), PNAS CC BY; Christ et al. (2023), Science — sub-ice sediment and the ice-free Greenland record
NASA JPL — UAVSAR radar survey, “New View of the City Under the Ice” (April 2024) Public domain