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Item Details
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NORAD AND THE SOVIET NUCLEAR THREAT
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| By: |
Gordon A. A. Wilson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
145970410X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781459704107 |
| Publisher: |
DUNDURN GROUP LTD |
| Pub. date: |
17 March, 2012 |
| Pages: |
290 |
| Description: |
Wilson takes readers inside the top-secret world of a fighter interceptor cockpit during the Amalgam Mute Exercise of May 10, 1973, as a crew attempts to destroy an attacking pseudo-Soviet bomber force during a military exercise. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
colour illustrations |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
Dundurn Group Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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