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Project Ice Worm

Project Ice Worm was a project at a secret USA base built under the Greenland icesheet to act as a research base for creating a hidden base for ICBMs.

Camp_Century_Layout_plan_USACE,_fig__26,_p__34Information can be found at:

http://defensetech.org/2012/04/06/inside-the-armys-secret-cold-war-ice-base/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm

http://gombessa.tripod.com/scienceleadstheway

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/477706.pdf – a paper on the concept, design and history

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