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Article: AGRs: AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN COLD WAR SKYWATCHERS
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- Sea Classics
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- January 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Challenge Publications Inc. Jan 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Completing an early-warning ring of radar sites around the United States in the pre-satellite Cold-War era was a fleet of 16 specially modified Navy-manned Liberty ships spotted in mid-ocean to alert America's East and West Coasts of impending air attack
As the cold war tensions grew between the United States and the Soviet Union in the mid1950s, American officials felt the United States and Canada were vulnerable to air attack from over the North Pole. Their recommendations were to build a Distant Early Warning Line (DEW), across the Arctic border.
The Bell Telephone Company was given the task to build the line. The Long Distance Lanes were from AT&T, Bell Laboratories, and military ...