Emma the Curious 🧐 on Nostr: At the height of the Cold War, scientists and engineers working for and with the U.S. ...

At the height of the Cold War, scientists and engineers working for and with the U.S. military cooked up a rash of audacious cold-region projects.

They were the stuff of science fiction: disposing of nuclear waste by letting it melt through the ice; testing hovercraft to zip over impassable crevasses; making furniture from a frozen mix of ice and soil; and even building a nuclear-powered city under the ice sheet.

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https://undark.org/2024/09/06/wilo-golden-age-offbeat-arctic-research/