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...diplomatic maneuvering over the Soviets' sagging satellite began in mid-December. It centered, at first, in a green-painted chamber housed half a mile deep within the solid pink granite of Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain, headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). There, technicians at the Space Defense Center track the 4,600 pieces of machinery now floating in space -including no fewer than 939 satellites...
...early last month, NORAD's computer analysis placed the probable re-entry point at somewhere over North America. On Jan. 12, Brzezinski opened the diplomatic dialogue by summoning to the White House Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, a former aerodynamicist who knew exactly what was at stake. Brzezinski politely pointed to the possible "serious hazard to the public" if Cosmos 954 fell in a populated area and asked the Russians to share any information that would enable "appropriate measures to be taken to obviate such dangers." The U.S. particularly wanted to know more precisely the enrichment of the uranium...
...last Monday afternoon, NORAD had a better fix on the decaying orbit, projecting the terminal track across the Australian deserts, then northeastward over the Pacific and into the beginning of reentry over the Queen Charlotte Islands, off British Columbia. Before dawn, Brzezinski was aroused with the news that Canada indeed...
Hannifin was granted access to the North American Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., where he monitored NORAD'S worldwide and deep-space observation systems. Another major stop for him was "Pentagon-South," the Army Materiel Command in Arlington, Va., where Army engineers develop and test new hardware...
...BATEMAN Major, Canadian Forces HQ NORAD (NEEC) Ent AFB, Colo...