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...Canada Line. With SAC bombers warned and on their way, electronically guided elements behind the DEW lines -interceptor fighters and guided missiles, already in place-would take on NORAD's second function, the interception and destruction of the attackers. Some 600 miles south of the Arctic DEW line, -the mid-Canada line's double fence of warning stations would pick up the invaders, plotting information on course for their interception in the air north of settled areas. Aircraft control and warning stations of the Pinetree system along both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border would be brought into...
...DEW Line. To carry out both functions without delay, NORAD must rely on the almost instantaneous coordination of all its parts, beginning with the outlying alarm bells of the newly completed, $600 million Arctic portion of the DEW line. Stretching for 3,000 miles along the northern rim of the continent, this line includes more than 50 stations whose surveillance radars interlock like an electric warning fan twelve miles high, from Alaska's Cape Lisburne to Canada's Baffin Island...
...their first winter of blizzards and long, lonely nights, 600 Americans and Canadians (98% of them civilian technicians who earn up to $13,800 a year) man the isolated DEW line stations, watching luminescent oscilloscopes in darkened rooms. Without the ability to intercept or even to defend themselves (an attack on them would in itself constitute a warning, and thus fulfill the DEW line's purpose), they have a single mission: to detect penetration of the radar fence by unidentified aircraft...
...relayed to SAC headquarters in Omaha and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington for immediate consultation with President Eisenhower, whose decision to give SAC's bombers the "go ahead" could be made and dispatched within five min utes from the time the warning came from the DEW line...
Protecting the flanks of North America are DEW line extensions far out to sea, maintained by relays of radar-equipped Navy destroyer escorts and WV2 Super Constellations. These mid-ocean lines stretch from the Aleutians to the mid-Pacific and from Newfoundland to the mid-Atlantic. Backing them up will be chains of underwater "listening" lines, now being built parallel to the coasts, to detect and intercept missile-launching submarines several hundred miles out at sea. In addition, a ground DEW line extension is also under construction across the arc of the Aleutian Islands; other holes are plugged...