Brrrr Cold War: Filmmaker R.J. Cutler To Drill Into Secret 1960s Plan To Turn Greenland Into U.S. Nuclear Missile Base
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Award-winning director R.J. Cutler’s latest project is taking him to a very remote and very icy environment.
He’s at work on a documentary about Camp Century, a U.S. military installation built in Greenland at the height of the Cold War.
Officially billed at the time as, “Nothing to see here, folks – we’re just studying the feasibility of ice-cap military outposts,” the site’s true purpose was only revealed decades later: a secret nuclear missile complex buried underneath the Greenland ice sheet.
The highly classified endeavor was dubbed Project Iceworm (a vaguely sinister appellation that would have delighted Ernst Stavro Blofeld), “a major military installation, with almost two miles of covered trenches as well as laboratories, an underground railway track and a… portable nuclear reactor to supply power,” as the Washington Post reported.
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