On the top of the world, below the surface of a giant ice cap, a city is buried.

In the late 1950s, the U.S. Army kicked off a project that sounds like something out of science fiction.

As part of man's continuing efforts to master the secrets of survival in the Arctic,

the United States Army has established an unprecedented nuclear-powered Arctic Research Center.

This is the story of Camp Century,

the city under ice.

Camp Century was a research base,

carved into the Greenland ice sheet about 800 miles from the North Pole.

A geoscientist named Paul Bierman told me all about it.

The layout was very much like a city grid.

The basic concept was simple.

There was one long street that was about 1,000 feet long down the middle, and then tunnels

branching off the sides.

A series of lateral trenches housing complete research, laboratory, and test facilities.

Some of the tunnels held the mess hall.

Everything from steak to fruit salad.

Some of those tunnels held the latrines.

Here there are showers for all.

Some of those tunnels held barracks.

It also has a small chapel for regular religious services

i think you have to imagine yourself dressed in clothing from the early 1950s and you have to

imagine the magazine ads and you have to imagine these sort of frightening movie titles and posters of the communists coming to take over America.

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