Camp Century’s Ice-Blanketed Past Reframes Greenland’s Strategic Value
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The Conversation recounts Camp Century, a secret 1959–1966 US Arctic base carved into Greenland’s ice and powered by a nuclear reactor, whose ice cores and history illuminate Greenland’s unexpected strategic importance—now amplified by melting ice that could expose mineral riches—discussed via an interview with geologist Paul Bierman in The Conversation Weekly.
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