Project Iceworm was the code name for a top-secret United States Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The ultimate objective of placing medium-range missiles under the ice — close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union — was kept secret from the Danish government. To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century.

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President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

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Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to me...

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For longer than the United States has been an independent nation, there has been a Marine Corps. The...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

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