Frozen Arsenal: Camp Century and Project Iceworm

Beneath the ice of Greenland, the U.S. Army built a base powered by a nuclear reactor—and told almost no one what it was really for.

This episode of Unsettled: The Hidden Record investigates Camp Century, the Cold War outpost disguised as a polar research station. In reality, it was part of Project Iceworm, a secret plan to hide hundreds of nuclear missiles beneath the Arctic, aimed at the Soviet Union.

The plan never came to full fruition. The ice shifted. The tunnels cracked. But the radioactive waste, fuel, and chemical contamination remain—trapped in the ice, now threatened by climate change.

This is the story of a hidden nuclear arsenal, a deceptive scientific front, and a frozen threat that never melted away.