Word: norad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early warning system is designed to detect the launching of Russian missiles in a nuclear attack on this country. Signals from satellites and radars are fed into a network of computers focused at the North American Aerospace Defense Command Center (NORAD) in Colorado and three other command centers. The information analysed and displayed by the computers is constantly discussed by members of the four commands in "missile display conferences...
November 9, 1979: Data simulating a massive Soviet attack was accidentally fed into the NORAD computer system. Ten jet interceptors took off and the crews of about 1000 Minutemen silos were alerted...
...North American Air Defense Command, the watchdog of all objects in orbit, listed 4,552 pieces of hardware-ranging in size from a Soviet space station to such bits of space junk as an astronaut's glove, stray cameras, and even nuts and bolts. In the coming years NORAD's job will become still harder. By the mid-1980s, the number of orbital objects may double, making it more difficult to tell what is up, and whether it belongs to friend...
...M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory, to gether with researchers elsewhere, has come to the rescue of the overtaxed satellite watchers. Using the latest in silicon-chip wizardry, it is setting up a worldwide network of monitoring stations that should vastly expand NORAD's ability to keep tabs on orbiting objects...