Wittingly or unwittingly, United Airlines gave Donald Trump a birthday present that more than made up for the lackluster army ...

As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...

Per a 1951 treaty with Denmark, the U.S. is able to build military installations in Greenland. At its peak during the Cold War, Washington had 17 military base across the island with about 10,000 ...

Sixty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, U.S. military scientists achieved a major feat. They extracted a mile-long slender cylinder of ancient ice from the heart of the Greenland ice sheet ...

NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice.". In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found ...

First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. Army began work on another top-secret base deep on the Greenland Ice Cap. Camp Century was defined as a “scientific research station.” ...

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island. Here’s why Greenland has always remained out of reach—and why it ...

Engineers with the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory capture an ice core at Camp Century, Greenland, ca. 1966. Army Corps of Engineers “We used two different techniques.

— -- Ice cores, glaciers and the cruel polar winds — the Cold War for Greenland featured the fiercest of foes. And scientists fought on the front lines. They battled polar whiteouts that ...

How a Cold War effort to conquer Greenland's ice revealed humanity's vulnerability to climate change. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

Per a 1951 treaty with Denmark, the U.S. is able to build military installations in Greenland. At its peak during the Cold War, Washington had 17 military base across the island with about 10,000 ...