Word: norad
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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After reading your article on what the U.S. is spending on NORAD and the DEW line, wouldn't it be more appropriate to call the whole system the American IMAGINOT line...
...manned bomber attack must have a raising of sights against missiles. Columbia University's Electronics Research Laboratories and the Air Force have developed a 3,000-mile, anti-missile radar-detection system, but huge appropriations and long months of testing are needed before it can be superimposed on NORAD's present defenses. Nike-Zeus and Wizard anti-missile missile systems, and an Air Force Special Weapons Center's proposal to use nuclear explosions as defense weapons against ICBMs in outer space, are similarly far from test stage. "The new system, the one we must have," says General...
...Canada Line. With SAC bombers warned and on their way, electronically guided elements behind the DEW lines -interceptor fighters and guided missiles, already in place-would take on NORAD's second function, the interception and destruction of the attackers. Some 600 miles south of the Arctic DEW line, -the mid-Canada line's double fence of warning stations would pick up the invaders, plotting information on course for their interception in the air north of settled areas. Aircraft control and warning stations of the Pinetree system along both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border would be brought into...
...Line. To carry out both functions without delay, NORAD must rely on the almost instantaneous coordination of all its parts, beginning with the outlying alarm bells of the newly completed, $600 million Arctic portion of the DEW line. Stretching for 3,000 miles along the northern rim of the continent, this line includes more than 50 stations whose surveillance radars interlock like an electric warning fan twelve miles high, from Alaska's Cape Lisburne to Canada's Baffin Island...
Once this occurred, warning would be flashed southward within seconds through the system to the Alaskan Air Command in Anchorage or Pepperrell Air Force Base in Newfoundland, R.C.A.F. headquarters at St. Hubert near Montreal and NORAD at Colorado Springs. From there, over "hot line" red telephones, the alert would be relayed to SAC headquarters in Omaha and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington for immediate consultation with President Eisenhower, whose decision to give SAC's bombers the "go ahead" could be made and dispatched within five min utes from the time the warning came from the DEW line...