The Wikipedia entry is interesting. Living there sounds nasty.
‘The sewage sump was 150 feet (46 m) from the nearest building and initially, was not vented. As a result, the odor of sewage became almost unbearable in the nearest quarters after the first year of operation. Subsequent venting of the sump reduced the odor, but did not eliminate the fundamental condition.’
Nuclear engineer/amateur reactor historian here. Camp Century found here was famously powered by a small Army nuclear reactor called PM-2A. There's a really great documentary about it from the 1960s here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=28NYczAuXl4
No. In the in-movie fiction both the tunnel and the entrance was in Greenland.
But in reality they were shooting the entrance scenes somewhere else. In Iceland in this case.
This happens quite frequently in movies. Toronto or Budapest frequently stands in to all kind of other cities for production reasons. (A subway escalator from Budapest even shows up on the space station of Alien: Romulus)
Toronto skyline is often apparent in 'New York' scenes, in many productions, Suits for example. It's like they think only NYC will be recognisable (formerly the twin towers, ESB, statue of liberty, etc.) so any view of Toronto can just sub in for an anonymous bit of NYC. (Except perhaps the CN tower, haven't seen anything that stupid!)
This was the source of humour in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" S2E3 where Kirk stands in Sankofa Square in front of a large sign emblazoned "Toronto Eaton Centre" and asks "Are we in New York City?"
Lots of film production goes on in Toronto, I especially love how Roy Thompson Hall always shows up in anything vaguely sci-fi. Vaught headquarters in The Boys, U.N. headquarters in The Expanse, it was even in the background of a few scenes of The Handmaid's Tale.
"The Ontario Film & Television Tax Credit is a 35% refundable tax credit on Ontario labour for film and television productions by Ontario-based Canadian controlled companies for productions shot in Toronto, Ontario."
Same general reason why a lot of film/tv production is done in the state of GA now, which decided to compete with California, Vancouver and Toronto to attract productions.
I'm not saying they should film in NY, I meant the lack of care to use less recognisable bits or remove them digitally etc. - that they think 'we can't film in NYC, people will recognise it, and this isn't set in NYC' - not that they were trying to film NYC and should do it in NYC. (But I realise now I made that confusing with the Suits example.)
Vancouver filming in the 1990s was worse, there's a Jackie Chan movie supposedly set in NYC where you can see a clear view of the snow capped north shore mountains across the water.
The 'new' Vancouver Public Library also serves as the headquarters of an evil human cloning corporation in "The 6th Day", and is seen in Battlestar Galactica.
total clickbait title, to the best of my knowledge ZERO actual missiles were ever based at camp century, and the whole rest of the ridiculous concept of using the greenland ice cap to base missiles was obsoleted in the 1960s by rapid advances in land based and submarine ICBMs.
I think the extend of the US nuclear weapons program for Greenland was limited to bombers stationed in Thule. There is a Danish book written about the whole thing, including the accidents. In it there is a paragraph or two about the US government approaching the Danish government, to hear if they would be interested in a briefing about the activities regarding nuclear weapons stationed in Greenland. The answer given to the US was "Absolutely not!".
The weapons where not suppose to be there, and the Danish government basically took a "don't ask, don't tell" approach to the whole thing.
Still the consensus is that Project Iceworm never really amounted to anything. The shifting ice and snow cover would have made the whole thing a nightmare to maintain.
There is a nuclear bomb somewhere under the ice near Thule, which was never recovered after the crash of a B-52.
I found the title to be correct, reflecting what was discovered i.e. missile "tunnels". I have zero clue about any of this, so it was an interesting read. And yes, a ridiculous idea but that's probably what the Egyptians also thought when the plans to build a pyramid were unveiled ;-)
There were no missiles, erectors, launchers, silo doors, hatches, warheads, fueling systems or solid rockets, launch control systems. Therefore not "nuclear missile tunnels". The whole concept was shelved once they learned what a pain in the ass it would be to build and maintain such a base, and the advances in range and reliability of regular icbms became obvious.
Camp century was built around the same time as the DEW line and other north warning system radars throughout Greenland and northern Canada, which had a more obvious use and necessity.
The project was a pilot and trial for a proposal to stage ICBMs in the Greenland ice sheet. To that extent, the description is accurate: a site whose goal was emplacing nuclear-tipped missiles in Greenland has now been observed by Nasa researchers.
Well it's good to know that once they abandoned the project, they cleared the site and left it how it was before they turned up. Oh wait, no, actually they left it with all the waste still there, under the assumption that it would be entombed 'forever' by the perpetual snowfall. Who would have thought it.
‘The sewage sump was 150 feet (46 m) from the nearest building and initially, was not vented. As a result, the odor of sewage became almost unbearable in the nearest quarters after the first year of operation. Subsequent venting of the sump reduced the odor, but did not eliminate the fundamental condition.’
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century