Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet the needs for dispersal of Strategic Air Command bases and improvement of the nation's radar-warning networks...
...last definite observation of the rocket was received by the radar telescope in Palo Alto, California early Saturday evening. At about the same time, a Smithsonian moonwatch team in Los Altos saw a bright object in the sky, which Whipple said, "could well have been the rocket starting to glow as it neared...
...this deterrence to a 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...
...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 action, pinpointing the targets in the sky with their radar, and directing their destruction by antiaircraft fire, guided missiles or interceptor planes, now in the process of being armed with nuclear-warhead rockets. Behind the Pine-tree posts, watching for breakthroughs or for flank attacks from the sea, are a host of additional AC&W units, including lines of offshore...
Helping to speed interception are newly developed SAGE (SemiAutomatic Ground Environment) system units, now being installed at direction centers of Air Divisions into which Canada and the U.S. are divided for defensive action. Into SAGE computers will be fed information about aircraft anywhere within the Air Division's radar area. This information will instantaneously be translated into symbols on TV-like picture tubes, showing current air situations, and automatically calculating correct employment of defense weapons...