Explore the history of the Canadian air defence of North America during the Cold War.
NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defence 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 Defence 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 honouring 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.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 358.4/030971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781459704114 9781459704107
- LCCN
- UG735.C3
- LCCN Item number
- W54 2011eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (288 p., [14] p. of plates)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00232783 (OCoLC)843079983 (CaOOCEL)464782
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- NORAD AND THE SOVIET NUCLEAR THREAT 2
- Copyright 5
- CONTENTS 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Foreword 11
- Prologue 14
- CHAPTER ONE 18
- CHAPTER TWO 37
- CHAPTER THREE 84
- CHAPTER FOUR 100
- CHAPTER FIVE 119
- CHAPTER SIX 176
- CHAPTER SEVEN 200
- CHAPTER EIGHT 236
- CHAPTER NINE 252
- Epilogue 281
- Conversion Table 290
- Sources 291
- Index 296
