Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US has had a military presence in Greenland since World War II. But an abandoned underground military site poses a major ...

Buried beneath the ice of northwest Greenland, a Cold War outpost once designed for nuclear war planning is reemerging in public view, thanks to satellite imagery and a warming climate. The secretive ...

In the middle of the 20th century, global war drove the development of nuclear capabilities. Following the success (such as it was) of the Manhattan Project, the United States and much of the rest of ...

When one thinks of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a few things likely come to mind. Space expeditions, Moon landings, and Mars rovers are sure to come up first, as the organization ...

In the late 1950s, the US Army Corps of Engineers took a gamble on Greenland because of its strategic location: perched between Europe and North America, right in the path of a possible Soviet threat.

The site of a former U.S. military base in Greenland was ice-free at a time when summers were a few degrees warmer than today ...

The US is planning to establish two military bases on Greenland in the south and on the east coast, a far cry from the 17 in the Cold War era. The Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig sites are part of a US deal ...

NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice." In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found Camp ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. built a military base under the ice in Greenland, hidden from the Soviets. It was eventually abandoned, but its most lasting legacy is a pivotal role in climate science.

The US has had a military presence in Greenland since World War II. But an abandoned underground military site poses a major environmental threat as the planet warms. Researchers found thousands of ...