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Sir Abubakar himself was widely respected as a man who sought to bring the feuding regions together. He was also one of the continent's leading moderate statesmen, opposed equally to colonialism and to Kwame Nkrumah's brash brand of African nationalism. But many of the men in...
A general calls out a command. At his side, a "display specialist" punches one button, then another; his fingers race across his varicolored panel filled with the flashing lights of disaster (see oppo site page). An outline map of the North American continent is traced in light across a large...
What with the war in Viet Nam and the mellowing of the Russians, nobody has been talking much of late about massive attacks on the U.S. itself. But the military, helped by its scientific colleagues, has not been negligent. The mountain stronghold will become the nerve center for a joint...
Computer Digestion. To carry out his mission, NORAD's commander, General Dean C. Strother, 57, can muster a force of more than 100,000 men, a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS, pronounced bemuse) that stretches from Alaska to England, squadrons of missile-armed jet fighters, and flocks of...
By simply pressing buttons, NORAD officers can electronically scan the entire North American continent and its distant approaches; they can track on the screens before them the flight of missiles or planes, friendly or hostile. They can, in COC jargon, "build up" a picture that includes patterns of probable radioactive...