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This 31 minute documentary detailing the Camp Century project and reactor is truly fascinating if you're into this kind of thing. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.c

• dredmorbius 5y ago
  That's a really fantastic bit of propagandistic history. I realised from the first that the claimed mission was B.S., though in the end, science actually prevailed. A couple of earlier comments: 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26854882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26854882 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12237745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12237745 Oh, and TIL: "Alco Products, Inc.", who manufactured the nuclear reactor used at Camp Century, isn't ALCOA (as I'd suspected), but "American Locomotive Company". It was only in the nuclear power business for about 6 years, shipping its first reactors in 1957, and selling the operation in 1963. https://www.schenectadyhistory.org/railroads/alcocovers/ https://www.schenectadyhistory.org/railroads/alcocovers/ I'm also pretty sure the TIME Magazine cover shown at 30:13 is is GE's Ralph Cordiner: https://archive.org/details/1959-images/page/1/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/1959-images/page/1/mode/1up More on Camp Century: https://www.wired.com/story/the-top-secret-cold-war-project-that-pulled-climate-science-from-the-ice/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-top-secret-cold-war-project-...