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26 September 2016 / Deutsche Welle / Irene Quaile
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Greenland ice holds Cold War peril

Nuuk, Sermersooq, Greenland

It sounds like something from a science-fiction novel or a disaster movie. A hidden city under ice, housing 200 people, complete with hospital, cinema, church and research labs – and powered by a mini nuclear reactor. In fact it is reality and lies below the ice of north-west Greenland. The building of Camp Century was started in 1959, by US army engineers.


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