Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
The RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS, "474L System", Project 474L) was a United States Air Force Cold War early warning radar, computer, and communications system, for ballistic missile detection. The network of twelve radars, which was constructed beginning in 1958 and became operational in 1961, was built to detect a "mass ballistic missile attack launched on northern approaches [for] 15 to 25 minutes' warning time" also provided Project Space Track satellite data (e.g., about one-quarter of SPADATS observations).
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English
While 9/11 was understood at the time as a world-changing event in international relations, its uneven aftermath and the long-term effects for North America could not have been predicted. Twenty …
Missile Defense Organization Bmews Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Bnaa British North America Act …
CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 May 2022
its ballistic missile early warning mission. Accessing information from the U.S. Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), NORAD’s mission was to assess whether North America was under attack, and …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 1 April 2022 English
The first comprehensive study of the Canada-U.S. Joint Arctic Weather Stations, systematically analyzing large- and small-scale aspects from scientific diplomacy to site logistics to understand how these isolated posts were …
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CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 12 September 2019 English
Our research initiatives focus on governance of the global economy, global security and politics, and international law in collaboration with a range of strategic partners and have received support from …
is home to one of NORAD’s three Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radars and it remains the only …
RI: Rideau Institute · 10 February 2019 English
to create a single, effective system of continental air defence…”6 Today, the air breathing threat to North America has returned because of the deterioration in relations of the West with …
Defense Support Program (DSP) and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) are likely able to identify … Ballistic Missile Defense BMEWS = Ballistic Missile Early Warning System C2 = Command and Control = the …
desLibris · 22 May 2018 English
The NORAD solution was the product of several key factors: geography, which made the defence of North America indivisible; the Second World War experience of the common threats posed by …
which include the NWS and the U.S. Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).28 Certainly, in the case …
desLibris · 2 May 2018 English
Sometimes referred to as Ballistic Missile Defence of North America (BMD/NA), the proposal for Canadian participation, logically envisioned as an extension of the North American Aerospace The Train Long Departed: …
System and improved ground-based Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radars to provide dual phenomenology-based …
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy · 7 November 2013 English
The January 2013 Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Program conference, Arctic Peoples and Security, focused on northerners' conceptions of security. What was clear from those who participated is that security, for most …
Pole as well as three overlapping ballistic missile early warning system fans. These ballistic missile systems …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 17 March 2012 English
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 …
the foundation of an operational Ballistic Missile Early Warning System; missile defence assumed a greater …
RI: Rideau Institute · 7 March 2010 English
The current geo-political threat level is nebulous and low – for now, according to Rob Huebert of the University of Calgary, “[the] issue is the uncertainty as Arctic states and …
particularly the upgrading of the Thule Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar in Northern Greenland for …
