A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
Maria Nițu
CNN — It’s 1962. Cold War tensions bristle between Washington and Moscow. Forced to enlist by the United States military, a young physician reluctantly cuts short his medical residency at New York’s Bellevue Hospital and ships out to a remote corner of Greenland. His orders? To serve as camp doctor at what he was told was a polar research station dug about 26.2 feet (8 meters) beneath the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet. Uncle Sam “sent me to sit under the ice cap 800 miles (about 1,300
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