Word: norad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exploit each of the islands' food sources. One group could well develop into an aquatic species capable of using its winged forelimbs for swimming. Another could, in the absence of competition, turn into the carnivorous night stalker, a flightless sightless bat, with ears as sensitive as a NORAD radar antenna, that carries its clawlike hind legs over its shoulders as it roams around on its forelegs screeching, in search of prey...
June 3, 1980: A faulty circuit in a NORAD computer caused false messages to be sent to two command posts. Alert bomber crews were ordered to start engines, and the Pacific Command aircraft took...
June 6, 1980: NORAD intentionally reproduced the situation in an attempt to track the fault. Similar events occurred...
...alerts. Their report emphasized that it took only a few minutes to discover that there was no real attack, and that many steps must be taken before a missile can actually be launched. However, during the June 3 false alert the Pacific Command took off after the Commander of NORAD had confirmed that there was no threat. In the words of the report, "There seemed to be an air of confusion...
Effective control is also threatened by the unreliability of the computer communication links. In December 1968, NORAD devised a program for updating the computer equipment in the early warning system. This program "427M" has been repeatedly criticized by the General Accounting Office, the Air Force, and the Defense Communications Agency. Two main features were attacked...