Melting Greenland ice threatens to expose Cold War waste

COPENHAGEN: A snow-covered former US army base in Greenland -- dubbed “a city under ice” -- could leak pollutants into the environment as the climate changes, raising difficult questions over who is responsible for a clean-up.

In 1959, US army engineers began constructing a futuristic project in northwestern Greenland that might as well have been lifted from a Cold War spy movie.