In 2019, then US President Donald Trump announced for the first time that the United States should “buy Greenland”. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen pointed out that Greenland was not for sale.
But it is not only the expansionist ambitions of the US president, but also Russia and China have their eyes on Greenland. The large icy island is now a strategic point for the control of the increasingly melting Arctic Ocean
But the recent ‘rediscovery’ of a nuclear city hidden beneath its ice could also be another reason. NASA scientist Chad Greene conducted a flight to probe the ice sheet and used new radar equipment, the UAVSAR (Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar). This is how he detected something he could not immediately identify. It was Camp Century, a US base abandoned almost 60 years ago.
In other words, during the Cold War a network of nuclear missile launch sites was created that could survive a first Russian attack. The discovery was made by a team of NASA researchers using ice-penetrating radar mounted on a Gulfstream III aircraft
Although the United States did not have the explicit authorization of the Danish government, it began construction of the camp and the subglacial nuclear reactor. The project failed for technical and organizational reasons. The fact is that Camp Century never had missiles installed and consisted of a network of tunnels more than 4,000 kilometers long capable of housing up to 600 nuclear missiles. The base was equipped with laboratories, dormitories and a power plant powered by a portable nuclear reactor.