The US Army’s Secret Plan for an ICBM Base in Greenland

The US Army’s Secret Plan for an ICBM Base in Greenland

In the late 1950s, the world lived under the shadow of the bomb. The United States and the Soviet Union, two superpowers locked in the ideological struggle of the Cold War, were engaged in a relentless and terrifying arms race. Each side possessed nuclear weapons of unimaginable power, capable of annihilating the other in a matter of hours. This precarious balance of terror was dominated by a single, overriding fear: the "first strike." A surpri…