North American Air Defense Command (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text North American Aerospace Defense Command Office of History. Charles H. Jacoby, Jr..

History of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard G. Chapman. The New Mexico Engineering Research Institute.

The story of the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Combat Operations Center (COC), the nerve center for the defense of North America during the Cold War. During the Cold War period, from March 1946 to November 1989, the free world faced the threat of a hostile Soviet Union and the specter of global nuclear war. As the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, strategic bomber capability, and space delivery systems, the United States and Canada joined forces to defend North America from the threat of...