At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, idealistic scientists and engineers saw the vast Arctic region as a place of unlimited potential for bold new futures, envisioning audacious projects that blended innovation with imagination, ranging from nuclear waste disposal strategies to the construction of a nuclear-powered city under the ice.
Karl and Bernhard Philberth proposed using Greenland's ice sheet as a repository for nuclear waste, imagining radioactive medicine balls that would melt into the ice. Their vision included reprocessing reactor fuel and encasing waste in glass or ceramic, showcasing how Cold War anxiety bred inventive, albeit risky, projects.
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