This story starts back in the 1960s. The Cold War was quietly raging, with both sides playing terrible games to one-up the other with “my arsenal is bigger than your arsenal” and then hiding how that might be true. Under the guise of scientific research, the U.S. Army built Camp Century in Greenland. Ostensibly a site to test construction techniques under Arctic conditions, in particular sub-glacial construction. However, documents declassified in the 1990s showed that the actual intent was to house a large number of missiles aimed at the Soviet Union. That never happened for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was the lack of desire to get permission from the Danish government.⠀ ⠀ Appearances must be kept up, though, so ice core samples were taken at the site. One of those cores was 1400-meters deep and included 4.5 meters of the ground below all the ice. Then the soil was put in a freezer and basically lost for decades. Until now.⠀ ⠀ Read my full story here: buff.ly...