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NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat

By: Dundurn Press

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Reference Books (Dundurn Press)


Product Info

Title
NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat
Publisher
Category
Author
Gordon Wilson
Publish Year
2011
Pages
288
Dimensions
6x9x.75"
NKG Part #
2148131504
Type
Softcover

Description

Explore the history of the Canadian air defense of North America during the Cold War.

NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defense of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret world of NORAD, the joint Canadian-American North American Air Defense network. Ride along with the aircrew in their cockpit as they fight an electronic joust in the skies. Go deep underground to the Command Centre as the Air Weapons controllers plot the air war on their radar screens. Visit the radar sites deep in the Canadian bush as they struggle to provide the radar data for an electronic air battle happening overhead.

An actual NORAD exercise on 10 May 1973, called Amalgam Mute, is used as an example. This exercise tested that NORAD was honoring its motto: Deter, Detect, Destroy, and was protecting North America from aerial threat. There is an extensive explanation of the aircraft, squadrons, weapons, radar, and radar sites involved.

Included are two personal accounts of the first interception of a Soviet "Bear" bomber off the coast of Canada, and the first Canadian fighter interceptor pilot to win the coveted United States Air Force "Top Gun" award.