The DEW line was one of three radar early warning systems of the time. If you grew up in the middle of the Cold War, you probably remember hearing about the Distant Early Warning line between duck-and ...
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Cold War Arctic: DEW Line & North Pole Defenses
Narrated by Raymond Massey. Explores the construction of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, a radar system established in 1953 to detect potential air attacks over the North Pole. The film details ...
Strings of radars stretching across Canada were built to give early warnings of Soviet bombers coming over the Arctic. The region now faces a new era of militarization. Strings of radars stretching ...
Canada and the U.S. last week took two important steps to enclose their common backyard. On the Arctic Circle, the DEW line (for Distant Early Warning), a 3,000-mile electronic tripwire, was switched ...
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