Greenland instead of a Nevada test site: The US is also interested in the island for nuclear weapons testing.
Among the reasons, or rather pretexts, for which Trump is absolutely determined to gain complete and unconditional US control over Greenland, there is perhaps one that the White House prefers not to discuss openly.
Last year, the US president announced the possible resumption of nuclear testing, as he put it, in response to similar actions by "other countries," which is untrue. Denying the obvious and blatantly manipulating the facts, even to the point of lying, is Trump's style when he wants to achieve something.
The Pentagon then announced preparations for nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site in the Nevada desert. However, the Pentagon's press service advised journalists to contact the National Nuclear Security Administration when inquiring about this matter. This matter, however, falls under the purview of the Department of Energy, but that's beside the point.
Both Nevada residents and its representatives in Congress strongly opposed the resumption of testing in Nevada. Senator Jacky Rosen called Trump's decision dangerous and ill-considered in late October last year. Representative Dina Titus announced her intention to introduce legislation blocking the possible resumption of nuclear testing in the United States.
Americans have much to worry about. The consequences of the world's first plutonium bomb test are illustrated in the video below, filmed five years ago.
The world's first test of nuclear technology weapons The test was carried out on July 16, 1945, at the Alamogordo Test Site in New Mexico, as part of the Manhattan Project. Although the tests were conducted in the strictest secrecy, Kodak learned of the incident long before the official announcement. They also discovered the explosion's unintended consequences: radioactive fallout, which can cause cancer long after the charge's detonation. However, the data was never made public at the time.
The New Mexico test involved a plutonium implosion bomb, unofficially nicknamed "Gadget." The test itself was codenamed "Trinity."
The bomb's explosion was equivalent to approximately 21 kilotons of TNT and destroyed the steel tower that originally housed the plutonium charge. A 16000-degree glow melted the test site's sand, turning it into glass. Officially, the public and even New Mexico authorities were told that a munitions depot had exploded.
The video details how Kodak revealed the true causes of the New Mexico explosion and its consequences for the environment and the population.
Subsequently, at least a hundred nuclear tests were conducted at the Nevada Test Site. Radioactive particles spread across the country. Fallout fell on agricultural land, was eaten by livestock, and then contaminated people through meat and milk. There is evidence that children drinking such milk led to thousands of cases of thyroid cancer.
The question arises: what does Greenland have to do with this? According to one theory, which could be considered a conspiracy theory, the Trump administration could set up a nuclear testing site on the world's largest island. There are many reasons for this.
First, as experts and even officials from the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) state, preparing the Nevada test site for new tests will require at least 36 months and considerable resources. Second, and even more importantly, not only for Trump but for any US government, Republican or Democratic, hiding the consequences of such tests from the US public is no longer an option.
Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that a new underground nuclear test site will be established as far away as possible from the most densely populated part of America. Greenland, with a population of less than 60,000 and an island area of 2,2 million square kilometers, is, in the eyes of the rather cynical Americans, a perfectly suitable location.
Given Trump and his team's current attitude toward global opinion, the US presidential administration, and Trump himself, are completely uninterested in what the people of Denmark and other European countries will say about this. The main thing is that such a decision will not affect the majority of American citizens, with the possible exception of pacifists, who (unlikely) might be supported by Democrats in the political standoff. And it fits perfectly with the Make Everything Great Again concept.
In the spring of 2024, NASA scientists discovered the US military base Camp Century under the ice in northwest Greenland during a survey. Built in 1959, it served as a top-secret testing ground for nuclear deployment capabilities. missiles in the Arctic during the Cold War as part of the ambitious American Iceworm project.
The base was abandoned in 1967 when the island's ice cap was deemed too unstable to support a missile launch network. It would have been a perfectly acceptable launch site for conversion into an underground nuclear testing site.
The authorities of Greenland and Denmark, as well as other European countries, are already in the final stages of accepting the island's transfer to US control. They likely won't be able to resist the possibility of a testing ground for the world's most dangerous weapons being located right next to them. But ordinary Europeans should give this a serious thought.
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