Word: norad
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...much of it little known. The cover story in WORLD introduces the new woman Prime Minister of a vast and 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...
This was the scene as NORAD officers checked and rechecked the complex 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...
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 Bomarc, Hawk and Nike-Hercules ground-to-air missiles. By its very definition, NORAD is a defensive force; by very obvious design, it adds immeasurably to the U.S. nuclear deterrent. Its buried COC is designed to survive any sneak attack; its trained staff will be able to make almost instantaneous...
Calm in the Tank. Deep inside the Pentagon, in the National Military Command Center?called "the tank"?first reports of the power failure flashed in from Strategic Air Command headquarters at Omaha and the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Colorado Springs. Both reported that eight major military bases in the Northeastern U.S. had suddenly ?and inexplicably?shifted to auxiliary power but that "the trouble was confined to a particular area and not due to bombs or such...
Communications with SAC and NORAD headquarters were checked and found intact. NORAD reported nothing alien or unfriendly in the skies over the U.S. "The Pentagon," said a senior officer, "remained calm, although pulses quickened...