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...struggling country where many women still cling to the old tradition of purdah. SCIENCE carries a report and the first color photographs of the remarkable new underground headquarters for NORAD (North American Air Defense Command), which has been in construction for five years inside Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain...
...internal communications network, the massed computers with their split-second memories, the radios, the cameras - all the paraphernalia of modern technology that is crammed into the new Combat Operations Center (COC) of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). Buried deep inside Colorado's 9,565-ft. Cheyenne Mountain, protected against any predictable hazards -from enemy sabotage to a direct hit by a nuclear bomb-the nearly completed COC, opened for press inspection this week, is scheduled to go into full operation in April, replacing the present more vulnerable one located at Ent Air Force Base, 13 miles away...
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 U.S.-Canadian defensive force that has the responsibility of detecting any bomber or missile attack on the North American continent and directing the defense...
...effect amounts to is something else again. Far from cloaking the new COC in secrecy, the Air Force seems bent on letting the world in on its every detail. This week's press tours include many foreigners. A large sign has been erected beside a highway near Cheyenne Mountain blatantly informing motorists that they are approaching the heart of North America's air-defense system. The message to trigger-happy aggressors should be as obvious as that roadside sign: NORAD's invulnerable new mountain of preparedness guards some of the most impressive products of modern science...
Harvard's Ski Club will sponsor an alpine ski race February 5th and 6th. The meet will be held at Wildcat Mountain's Pinkham Notch in Jackson...