'Project Iceworm': The Secret Nuclear City Under the Ice [Socialist History: S1 Episode 4 Preview]

Podcast: The Socialist Program with Brian Becker · The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

Opublikowano: 2026-06-30

In 1959 the US Army began building a base beneath the Greenland ice sheet, presented to the press, to Congress, and to the Danish government as a scientific research station. This was a cover story. The real plan, code-named Project Iceworm, was to bury a network of tunnels housing up to 600 nuclear missiles under the ice, invisible to Soviet satellites, on land taken from Indigenous people who were never consulted, in a country that had declared itself nuclear-free. In this episode we take a deep dive into the breathtaking scale of the classified plan, why the moving ice ultimately defeated it...