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Brrrr Cold War: Filmmaker R.J. Cutler To Drill Into Secret 1960s Plan To Turn Greenland Into U.S. Nuclear Missile Base
Award-winning director R.J. Cutler plans to direct a documentary on Camp Century, a secret U.S. military installation built in Greenland.
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. Cutler tells Deadline, “The largely unknown story of Camp Century – this top-secret military base hidden under the ice of Greenland – is such a rich metaphor for the eternal desire to bury our secrets.
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