Nuclear security

The US Considered Hiding Nuclear Weapons In Iceland (And Not Telling Iceland)

New documents obtained by the National Security Archive reveal that the US government considered establishing a nuclear weapons storage site in Iceland during the 1950s. The really interesting part? The United States wasn’t going to tell Iceland.

To be clear, there’s no evidence that the US has ever housed nuclear weapons in Iceland, with or without that country’s knowledge. But top secret telegrams and State Department staff summaries, published for the first time by the National Security Archive, reveal Iceland was very concerned about US nuclear deployments during the Cold War. And it seems like they had very good reason to be concerned. The Americans were making plans for the land of fire and ice without telling them the whole story.