Secret US military base that is 100ft beneath Greenland

Abandoned HQ was home to 1960s nuclear missile project

- KATIE HAWKINSON

US president Donald Trump has spent his first weeks in office calling for the US to buy Greenland while refusing to rule out the possibility of military force – even as officials declare the country isn’t for sale.

Mr Trump claims the US needs to own Greenland in order to address national security concerns – and it’s not the first time the country’s strategic importance has been the focus of the US military.

More than six decades ago, the US Army Corps of Engineers was hard at work on a project in Greenland: Camp Century. The project itself, set in a military base with two miles of tunnels, wasn’t entirely classified. Journalists were invited to visit the area, and the army advertised it as a nuclear power base, National Geographic reports.

But hardly anyone knew the truth: Camp Century was also developing Project Iceworm, a network of complex tunnels and railway tracks that could house and transport some 600 nuclear missiles. These missiles could then be shot over the north pole towards the Soviet Union. Now, new information on the mysterious base has come to light.

Why Camp Century was built – and why it was abandoned