This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Back in the 1960s, the U.S. Army secretly planned to build a network of tunnels under Greenland’s ice sheet to ...

The overall theme of the early part of the Cold War was that of subterfuge — with scientific missions often providing excellent cover for placing missiles right on the USSR’s doorstep. Recently NASA ...

The Cold War By John Lewis Gaddis. Penguin; 352 pages; $19 and £14.99. This concise history by John Lewis Gaddis, often described as the dean of cold-war historians, provides a rounded account of the ...

Giant vehicles were used to transport supplies to Camp Century, a U.S. military base in Greenland, shown in June 1959. (Pictorial Parade/Getty Images) As the threat of nuclear war loomed during the ...

As the threat of nuclear war loomed during the Cold War, the U.S. Army hatched a top secret plan to conceal hundreds of missile launchers on rail lines hidden beneath the thick ice sheets of Greenland ...

As the threat of nuclear war loomed during the Cold War, the U.S. Army hatched a top-secret plan to conceal hundreds of missile launchers on rail lines hidden beneath the thick ice sheets of Greenland ...