Long-lost Ice Core Drilled to Prepare Ice Sheet to Hide Nuclear Missiles Holds Clues About a Different Threat

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By Katelyn WeisbrodMar 15, 2021, 3:57 pm367 pts
Plant remnants frozen beneath 4,000 feet of ice show that most of Greenland’s ice sheet melted about 1 million years ago, in a climate like today’s. By Bob Berwyn Before the U.S. military tried to hide nuclear missiles under the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Cold War, they asked scientists to determine the…

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