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Final Historic Building and Evaluation of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) System (1999)
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Final Historic Building and Evaluation of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) System (1999)
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This report presents the results of an inventory and evaluation of Cold War-era buildings and structures at eight Distant Early Warning (DEW) installations. These eight installations represent the original, experimental Alaska Segment of DEW installations that provided the first comprehensive, defensive working system for possible attacks aimed at the North American continent (Thompson 1986) during the period of 1953 through 1969. The eight installations and their function within he system...