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...gather material for the text, Montreal Correspondent Byron Riggan made the first visit of any reporter to the Mid-Canada line. Other TIME Correspondents visited DEW line sites in Alaska, interceptor bases, Nike batteries and lonely aircraft control and warning stations from Cape Cod to Southern California, and interviewed NORAD's commanders at Colorado Springs. See SCIENCE, NORAD: Defense of a Continent...
...Second, NORAD must be modernized as speedily as possible with new, long-range anti-missile radar and interception devices...
...whole new problem confronts the system. The cold fact: it cannot detect missiles. Warns Air Force General Earle E. Partridge, Commander in Chief of NORAD (North American Air Defense): "If the aggressor's weapon is the ICBM, the continent stands today almost as naked as it did in 1946, for I have no radar to detect missiles and no defense against them...
First, for an unpredictable number of years, perhaps for a decade, before Soviet missiles supplant manned bombers, the NORAD system must be maintained...