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...them straight to their targets, does everything but fire their weapons. ADC also mans six Bomarc surface-to-air missile squadrons in the northeastern U.S.; two Bomarc squadrons in Canada and hundreds of Army Hawk and Nike-Hercules missile batteries in the U.S. are under control of the parent NORAD command...
From such patchwork beginnings, the ADC has evolved into a 100,000-man force with $8 billion worth of equipment, a $1 billion-a-year budget and 1,500,000 miles of communications circuits. The largest component of the multiservice North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Colorado Springs, ADC is commanded by Lieut. General Herbert B. Thatcher, who flew one of the F-51s at Mitchell 15 years ago. Its major missions...
Next stop was the Colorado Springs headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command, where Kennedy sat hunched forward in the glass control booth from which NORAD's commander would direct defenses against enemy nuclear attack. In an 18-minute electrically simulated surprise attack, he watched the screen trace a pattern of bomber fleets and missile waves from the Soviet Union. The bombers were stopped, but the intercontinental missiles came on and erupted in eerie white ovals as they struck American cities. Muttered one Air Force officer: "We have no way to stop them." The President emerged from...
...quick agreement with the U.S. to give the stingless Canadian forces the nuclear weapons they need to fulfill their roles in NATO and NORAD...
When General Lauris Norstad, retiring from SHAPE, dropped in at Ottawa last winter and allowed that Canada was not living up to its NATO commitments. Pearson, after a thoughtful week off, announced a switch in Liberal policy: since Canada had made a nuclear commitment to NATO and NORAD. it should live up to its obligations, and at a future time re-examine the rights and wrongs of the commitment...